This is minor, but I noticed some of the white coloration from the northern mountains discolors the black background behind the parchment. I imagine you'll want to mask that out.
Good to see you working on this again.
Urgh... been WAY to long since I worked on this. Minor update... added a bit more noise texture to the water (whitish highlights) and changed the cliff to run the entire length of the upper mountain area. Could use a bit more playing with the cliff itself, but this is what I got completed in the short time I had available.
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This is minor, but I noticed some of the white coloration from the northern mountains discolors the black background behind the parchment. I imagine you'll want to mask that out.
Good to see you working on this again.
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Another small update. Added a bit more to the coniferous forest up north (have not finished yet...) and pushed the shading back toward the darker green spectrum... Need to add the trunks...
Next up is one or two rivers and then working on some of the settlements that most likely no longer exist.
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You sure do like to take your time with a map, don't you?
Looking really nice though. When do you expect to have it finished?
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Yea well... real life sucks some time...lol
Thanks....
If my life holds true to form... never....lol. But really, I hope to have this thing done sometime in the next 2 months or so. Not really a ton left to add to it time wise other than drawing up some city/town/fort icons. That and doing up a proper compass will be the most time. Adding the rivers and labels will take little time. I had thought about doing a small region of swampy land in the southeast, but I just can't think of a way to do it to match this style map, so may just bag it...
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Doesn't it, though? I've consigned myself to the reality that I will not be able to finish my map until after Grad School, if then (depends on conditions with the impending bambino).
But this is looking quite fine, here. I would say the piney forest is looking a little... technicolor, so to speak, compared to the wonderfully earthy colors of the rest of the map.
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Minor update... tweaked the color mix in the brown mountains and adjusted several of the outline opacity. I also blurred the forests just a bit to tone down the heavily stippled look on the large forest and the heavy color contrast on the conifers forest.
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Ok.. another minor update. Thanks to Ramah, I used one of his just added wireframe castles for my first town/city icon with some color and shading added. More to come at some point.
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Heh. That was a quick use.
Well I quite like it, but I think you've made the cones on the top of the castle towers a little... rainbow. They look a little too bright to me. If you coloured them all the same colour as you've done the smallest cone (the dark one) I think it would look pretty cool. Or at the very least, ditch the yellow.
Last edited by Ramah; 12-03-2009 at 07:05 PM.
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