Greetings from Germany!

[Edzard]

Hi,
my name is Edzard and I just joined the Cartographers Guild.

First of all, english isn’t my mother tounge, so please be considerately.

I never thought that so much people are into fantasy cartography like me. I hope I can become a active part of this community.
Maps are to me like a living thing that pulls me into a different world. I need them to imagine the things inside.

I started playing The Dark Eye when I am about 14 or 15 yrs old. Quick my friends and me disapproved with the rules. So we did our own ‘laid-back’ variant and called it ‘The Thirteenth Hour.’
To us it was more about the Story and not about the rules.
Since then I drew a map according to our adventures. So the more we’re playing, the more towns and cities appearing to the map. It's about 20 years now.

I just started a new group with colleagues from my work. They became nosy when I talked about it. To make them imagine this world a little more I start to redraw the whole map.

I had higher demands on my work and still working on this.
I’m using different methods like drawing oldschool with pencils and ink pens. I also a draw on an Wacom Cintiq 13 HD. My favorite application for drawing is Photoshop (an old CS2 version) and Krita. For editing I prefer Corel Photopaint.

Actual I’m on work, but I will upload my current work shortly.

I hope I get some support for learning how to draw city maps, cause I’m really bad at it.

I'm looking forward to sharing experiences with you.


Best regards

Edzard

*EDIT:
There it is:


Here the complete album (a little history of this map): http://www.cartographersguild.com/al...p?albumid=5221

[Diamond]

Woah! That's a very cool map! I love your mountain and town icons/drawings - fantastic. And great choice of font.

Welcome to the Guild and have some rep for diving in with a map!

[Edzard]

Thank you Diamond! Just look at your gallery - a sight for sore eyes!

[SteffenBrand]

Wonderdul work, Edzard! And I like the toned-down imaginative version of Aventuria. Who knows how it would have been designed today... =)
Repped! Best wishes and welcome to CG, -- Steffen

[Edzard]

Hey, someone from Germany! Thank you.
Yeah, may we settle over to a new continent