City Map WIP

[Czepeku]

Hi, some of you might have seen my battlemaps but I'm trying to branch out and make a city map and would love some feedback on it.

A lot of the style was inspired by the work of Steffen Brand: https://www.artstation.com/steffenbrand

And the topography was inspired by the fictional New Crobuzon as well as Paris, London and Kyoto.

I plan to add some district and landmark names later on but right now i want to get the readability/colours/style sorted.

Thanks for taking a look!

[MistyBeee]

Looks really good so far ! The walls & 'towers' are maybe a bit oversized if compared to smaller houses but it can be a whole story by itself to explain why it's that huge
'love your river a lot too ! It looks really natural

[Czepeku]

I had something like Carcassonne (the city, not the game) in mind with the walls/towers but you're right they do look really oversized. Thanks for pointing that out.

I feel like rivers are often the most important part of the city so i'm glad i got that right!

[XCali]

Well you got the style quite close to what Steffen is doing. My city maps styles is very much different, so I don't exactly know what kind of feedback to give.

Though there are certain things I would like to see. Labels for one. At the very least as one version of it. Two, cleaner lines between the buildings. It is alleyways, so it the lines narrowing and then disappearing between some buildings is somewhat jarring. Though that is a minor point.
On the river, I feel I would like to see a bit of basic depth maybe, just to get the land to look a bit lifted.

But, again for this style I am bit more uncertain how to go about feedback. I wish you goodluck with the rest, city maps are always a lot of work.
Cheers,
Omri

[Czepeku]

Hey Omri, I just realised I never replied to this, sorry! I appreciate the feedback and I've updated the map with both labels and some river depth, so thanks for those suggestions, I think they've made a big difference to the look of the map.

[Falconius]

That looks great. You can definitely see Steffan's influence, and that's not a bad thing

[SteffenBrand]

Weeeell, you are pretty close, great work so far! All in all I think you should have a close look on the width of your streets. You have a giant river, along it are some tiny jetties and the streets outside the city are really broad. The relations seem a bit off here.

I'd be remiss, however, if I didn't say I'm incredibly honored to be imitated
Excited to see where your path leads, don't hesitate to tread outside from what I did if it doesn't work for you here.

Best wishes, Steffen

[Czepeku]

Hey Steffen, thanks for replying! Did you see the updated version? Here's a link if not: https://www.cartographersguild.com/a...4&d=1564999287

Tried to find my own colour scheme and move away from your more earthy tones, I think it suits better. I plan on doing a 2nd attempt of this map to fix some of the scale issues. I wanted to imitate medieval alleys and narrow wynds but perhaps that doesn't work with the giant river/city walls. And I now can't unsee the size of the roads leading out of the city... Time for another try I think.

[SteffenBrand]

I had not, thank you very much. Interesting way you went! =)

[XCali]

Great stuff! I really like how your update of the map looks. Though I agree with the massive roads problem, the color theme and the labels is a real nice improvement and so is the river. All in all, the map is coming along splendidly.