Quote Originally Posted by Nowhere Man View Post
First and foremost, as my first post - Thank you for this fantastic tutorial!

I've recently gained the desire to learn a bit of cartography. Originally I used RobA's tutorial which helped me get familiar with GIMP and then came across your tutorial which I've been practicing at for some time now. I've also looked through your projects and am always impressed with how your land comes out which is the reason for my post.

What method(s) do you use to plan out your general land? I've attempted to emulate it several times but find it always lacking the 'feel' you manage to capture which, to me, is somewhere between a dragonesque feel and final fantasy art style.

Would you mind revealing any methods to your style of basic land generation?
Hi Nowhere Man, sorry for the late reply, been a bit preoccupied at the moment.

Glad the tutorial has been of use to you! As for the land shapes, I wrote a little tutorial on this over at my blog a couple of years ago which talks about my method. In regards to "feel" of this style, I think this is sort of just an intuition thing. I sort of just let the fractal clouds guide me through creating the main land masses, with an aim toward making them feel, as you describe "dragonesque". I'm not sure that there's much I can tell you about this other than keep practicing. The more you play at it the more confident you will become and the easier it will become.

Cheers,
-Arsheesh