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    Hey everyone. I hope all your map-making projects are going well. Been really enjoying what I have seen shared over the last few months.

    
I have some new free assets for you.

    Today, I am releasing Moronobu Gansai, the first in a planned duo by the same creator. This set is based on 東海道分間絵図 or Map of the Tōkaidō, a 17th-century watercolor map painted enormous scrolls by Hishikawa Moronobu.

    This is my most extensive set to date, with over 1140 free brushes! These are still symbol-based but with a more painterly approach that allows for work that feels more like picturesque landscapes than the traditional pen-and-ink hill-profile approach common to many historic European maps. The history of the Tōkaidō is fascinating, and you'll find a lot of unique objects specific to this route. It's perfect if you want to create something that evokes an elegant Edo-Period style.

    Moronobu Gansai is my first set to launch with a separate pack of individual PNGs organized by folders the same way I organize the ABR files. This should make using these with tools like Wonderdraft much more manageable; no more extracting symbols from an enormous PNG!

    You can read more about Moronobu Gansai and download the set on my blog.

    Some of the symbols:
    moronobu-gansai-sampler-1.jpg

    moronobu-gansai-sampler-2.jpg

    moronobu-gansai-sampler-3.jpg

    Moronobu Gansai in use:

    moronobugansai_samplemap_SML.jpg

    (A higher res version is available on my site.)

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    These are gorgeous! It's fantastic to see brushes in a quite different style from most of what's out there, and I'm sure many people will enjoy using them.

    I'm sure I've said this in the past, but I really admire you for taking the time to make these wonderful brushes and offering them freely for others to use!
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    Thanks! These are fun to put together, and it's a good way to keep history alive. Finding unique and different approaches to map making is part of the fun.

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