Aran & Ilan - novel version

[Caenwyr]

Look out! It's a crazy person

This is an interesting series of maps, Caenwyr. If I may say, I think I like the mouse-drawn map the most. Good luck condensing this into A5...

Thanks Wingshaw! I like the hand-drawn style best as well, although I have luckily evolved a bit since that early iteration. I intend to use it for the A5 version too, although with some tweaks to keep everything legible.

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My progress up to this point:

So I had my large-scale map (the last one from the first post), and a more zoomed-in map of just the central mountain ridge. Resizing these to A5 and overlaying them one on top of the other gives you this:

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I then used this as a basis for a new coastline, and new sketchy mountain and hill ranges:

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Which then got elaborated further into separate mountains and hills:

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I then started inking the mountains in, but soon some vague dread started creeping up on me: would this actually be visible on that small size? So I printed it out on the right format, and this is what I get:



So basically no, these overly detailed mountains are so tiny they can't possibly be distinguished on that size. Especially not considering book prints generally don't have this high a print resolution. So... I guess I'll have to erase the mountains I have, and come up with much simpler ones. A style I've always wanted to do but always kept drifting away from, and now I'm gonna be forced to do it. You see, all works out!