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    Wip WIP- The First Land

    The name for the world is still a WIP, but this is for my novel. It's still in the sketching faze. The glacier and coastline are hand drawn, as well as the animals in all four corners of the map. This world is based off of Finland, during the end of the last ice age. I looked at much of that country's geography, and what kind of impact large glaciers leave after they melt. I'd love some advice on how i'm doing so far, and if there are things that need to be fixed please let me know
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    I updated the animals and added some outlets for the larger lakes. I would love some advice and critiques!



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    Hi Airzae, first, this is a legit WIP so have some rep for it

    Second, it's hard to critique at the moment because it's really hard to tell the difference between islands and lakes. Think you could give it a quick-pass digital coloration so that we can see it more easily?

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    I filled in all the lakes/ocean. I hope this helps! Click image for larger version. 

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    I like the portrait alignment and use of perspective - you don't see this a lot.

    Reminds me very much of the maps used for Tad William's Osten Ard novels.
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    This looks promising! Finland has definitely a lot of potential as an inspiration.

    One thing I'm not quite sure about are the lakes though. Or, to put it better, the shapes and their alignment. If you look at a map of Finland, you can almost see the ways the glaciers took. Same thing for Sweden. I would suggest tweaking the shapes a little so they can "tell the story" better.

    The animals in the corners look great, the one in the bottom left being pretty creepy.
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    The glaciation at the top would be better served by being a bit more irregularly shaped, I think. Plus, if you made it protrude a bit between lakes it would also sell those nicely as glacier lakes.

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    I redid the lakes after I looked at a map of Finland. You can really see how the glacier scraped holes and hollows into the land to allow all those lakes to form. The glacier itself is trickier for me. I added some more knobs and protruding bits, but I not sure how to make it well look 3-D. Like its leaping off of the map and not a flat surface.

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    It's been a few days, but here's the update! I changed the glacier to make it look more realistic. The lines are going to be glacial moraines, and the lakes are all kettle lakes for the most part. Still trying to figure out how to shade the glacier, but it's going good so far.

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    I second Llannagh about the corner animals (and the bottom left one ).
    Looks promising!

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