Oh man, I am absolutely loving the style and the worldbuilding you're working in here.
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Man, this is looking so good Abu. Really.
Color is excellent. Your terrains are engaging and well drawn. What's not to like here?
I even like the text and font choices.
Is the realm desert? Or just looking that way right now? [might have missed you saying about this - lots to read lately ]
There is a strong appeal to the desert look, but that doesn't mean that it couldn't look just as good if it were jungles or grasslands.
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Really awesome, Abu. I really got nothin' to add at this point. Love the world-building, very bleak and cool.
I agree, the labels look much better now. This is coming along nice, love your mountain style, one of the best ones on here. Plateau looks awesome...and you know what, I'll redo my map now. I also have a plateau and my mountains were just to small in comparison so screw it (the relative scale), I like em big so I'll make em big
Have a question. How do you upload such a high res picture? Mine is already too big while twice smaller in res. What format do you save in etc. Thnx
Last edited by Barek333; 04-06-2016 at 04:00 AM.
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Great job Abu, your setting the bar high. The Carn definitely looks like a birthing of some sort. Great job so far.
Thank you Will! Gives me motivation to work further on it.
Thanks a lot John. You never stop inspiring me with your amazing sense for subtle color-palettes (and many, many other things), so your praises are highly appreciated and make me quite happy! I thought about the hinterland as a rather arid plains/steppe/savannah and desert region, because of the mountain range near the coast, where it's more tropical (well, geography isn't my strength, but i think it's rather reasonable in this latitudes). For now i only broadly colored some areas and left the (indeed somewhat desert-like) background as it was. I like it as a background in the north too, even if it isn't depicting desert there. Have to see, whether i'll color the actual desert regions a bit different later.
Thanks Diamond, it's always a bit of a pain for me to write stuff in english. Lacking the mother-tongue feeling for the language makes it often hard to express what i want to say (in a somewhat aesthetically pleasing way at least ). With the many phrases, metaphors and rare words i have in my german mind to describe things, dictionaries and good old google are often just less than mediocre tools for translation...
Thanks Barek, i'm flattered... But there are many more things to learn for me, before i'd call the mountains "best" or even "good" (besides the fact that i'm quite sceptical about comparing these things). I think they have a bit of a fraud like character to them. Yes they look flashy (i'm still quite surprised what happens on the canvas in front of me while drawing ) but i struggle every single time with perspective issues and the general consistency of the linework. When i try to convey it to other things than mountains i usually fail miserably ... well, i think "one-trick-pony" is the correct phrase for it.
About the Resolution: I work with gimp and exported it as .jpg. Its about 90% quality (compression?). I know when you export it with 100% quality even a .jpg file can become quite large. But the size decreases dramatically if you lower it by just some percents. I usually get problems with the 4.6 mb upload limit, if i have a ~7kx10k px canvas. But with this size (~3.4kx3.8k px) it shouldn't be a problem.
Thanks a lot Max! I already copy pasted the river from your map (forgot to mention it in the post), but i'll send you a mail nonetheless. Better to have the original layer in this case i guess
Thanks a lot snodsy, greatly appreciated! I'm glad i could depict there what i had in mind.
Last edited by Abu Lafia; 04-06-2016 at 10:05 AM.
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Well that one trick is quite good. Other things will come along. You cant master everything at once, and of course no one is ever done improving
And I realized my stupidity, I figured 100% compression means reducing it in size as much as possible. Boy do I feel stupid now
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It's looking very nice so far!
I had a question for you as well: I was browsing though the foreign relations archive, but it seems the records of the relations with 'Cayad, Realm of the Carnelian God-Empress' have been burned by dragons... How have we been doing in the past? I noticed a show of interest in me leaving the borders unprotected, but I'm not sure ;p
Keep doing what you're doing!
-Dan