Map A - Northern Maze [Jo land]

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Hey Jo - this is excellent. It feels like a real country - a sense that is lacking from even some of the best drawn maps at the Guild. I think it helps a lot that you have positioned the settlements in places that make perfect sense according to the topography and rivers of the land, and that you have marked them with simple coloured spots, in much the same way that they might be marked in an atlas on a map of this scale.

congratulations on a job well done

If I had even just the tiniest nitpick...

It would be the thick black line part of the border. Its slightly fuzzy, as if its out of focus compared to the rest of the 'print', and doesn't allow any of the underlying texture to show through at all, which makes it seem not quite like its part of the map. Other black lines on the map seem to show as if they are printed on the paper, but this one does not.

But that really is an extremely tiny thing!

You're right Mouse ! I'll correct that... I wanted the frame to blend more with the paper, but to smooth the border of the border is not the right solution... I'll probably work on the opacity of the black lines.
And thanks for your kind words !

Wonderful piece, Jo

Thanks a lot ! I hope to finish it this weekend !

Super update Jo. Some of the labels are not easy to read, but i understand its hard to place thme there between those mountains.
I see you took inspiration from the same viking compass as me for our guild map

You are right for those labels : I'll try to reinforce the glow around some of them to ease the reading. The point was to avoid placing those labels on the see : if this map joins the guildworld one day, everything that's on the sea will be cut off.
And yes, I googled "viking compass"... and found that you had done the same... But I thought that after all, it makes sense that two similar countries use the same compass... I'll try to add rhumblines this weekend, but I'm not sure the result will be good... I'll see that

Superb map! There's a fabulous amount of detail in there. Those mountains must have taken ages to draw.
Solid contribution to the Guild World!

Thanks a lot ! I sure took my time for those mountains, but it's a style I wanted to try for a long time... Diamond used carterpillar too in one of his latest map, and I think it gives a style, or an "age" to the map which is really interesting because once you use this kind of relief, it gives you some directions for the rest of the map (forest, rivers, labels... even border). It's a constraint and it might be challenging.