March/April/May '24 Lite Challenge: The Niwlen Spine

[XCali]

Hey XCali, the mountainranges with the fog have a lot of character to it! Many fantastic things to discover here and i really like the tree brushes you made.

Since you asked for opinions on some things, here they come:
- Regarding your title, have you tried out the font you used for the other lables? The handwritten one looks a bit like a hasty note in my view. With the amount of work you've already put into this map i'd opt for a digital font or redoing it by hand with a ruler/ helping lines, etc ?)
- The Icons look good in this colourful pictorial style! I just wonder if they might be a bit redundand in this scale, since the beautifully drawn landmarks depicted on them are right next to and even sometimes obscured by the icon (e.g. on the Fossfall Býr)?

And one thing you haven't asked for:
- In my view the labels looked better and more readable in a non-curved state.

Hope you don't get me wrong, this map is looking fantastic so far and i'm looking forward to see it unfold!

Thanks a bunch!

Hehe, don't worry! I really appreciate if people can openly discuss what can be tweaked, or even wonder if something needs to be tweaked.

- Yup. I do agree. And to be frank, I have been striking a little blank on how I can do it differently without taking away from the fog lands. Will think about what to do about it.

- I do agree that sometimes you need to let the landscape do the talking (e.g. Dorchada, is the mountain with a entrance to an ancient stronghold) But, since this is a zoomed in part of a much larger map, the icons are mainly there to represent the type of settlement that is located there. Veilwatch having a Morning Tree, and being a large city. Fossfall Byr, Jotuns Fheir and Solstein being small villages. And then Dry River Hold and Rots'Oord making up larger towns. (The only real different thing I might do is making it smaller icons, though I was trying something new.)

- And sadly on the labels, it is about consistency on my maps. On the larger map of the region, stuff like mountains and forests have curved labels, and the settlemens. I keep on non curved. So, I'm not going to change that for this map.

Thanks on the tips! It is definitely good to consider and reconsider things as one continue.


This is just to show a piece of the larger map.