MAP 43 - The Idiosyncracy of Valpolicella

[SrgDark]

Also, I'll be sure to note down Highball where it is on my future updates.

[J.Edward]

Excellent, really digging the Noveau look. Note to self: must make a… dieselpunk? Steampunk?… Jugendpunk map sometime

Yes, I want to see Jugendpunk right now

[Robulous]

How about "Drunkpunk"? :p

[J.Edward]

How about "Drunkpunk"? :p

Oh, I'm pretty familiar with that
Once might have been called that myself.
Now, how 'drunkpunk' might be represented like 'cyberpunk' or 'steampunk'... not as sure there.

[Will Phillips]

Love the Art Nouveau stylings, but I'm kind of a biased party in that sense, heh.

[Robulous]

So draft 3 - colour! I've coloured it to indicate climate and some jiggery pokery to give it texture, plus sketched in provinces and some cities. What do you think? In some ways I quite liked the more monochrome look but the colour looks pretty. I tried using an art nouveau palette but I wonder if it spoils the purity of the style.

Oh, and mountains. I'm not great at sketching mountains so here's an emboss effect that gives an impression of terrain without using mountain stamps.

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Comments much appreciated! I'm still tinkering with cities/features so it's far from finished.

[jshoer]

I think I like the monochrome better. It just seemed so classy! If you do want to go with color, maybe have solid colors without the shading, and maybe desaturate a little more? Lots of options will probably work.

I'm not so sure about the embossed mountains with this style. Put them in your back pocket for later, but maybe on this map there would be some art deco design that would work well for mountains instead.

[Robulous]

There is some shading in art nouveau but yes you're right solid colours are more common. I'm just not enough of an artist to do it justice. And I haven't found any examples of maps done in an art nouveau style for inspiration. Suggestions welcome!

[Ilanthar]

That's an original and unsual style. Quite pleasant actually. It's a wonder that the people of Valpolicella are able to draw maps... maybe early in the morning?
You have some overlapping (cool) logos on the label close to Wisqui strait.

[Falconius]

I like the colours, the pastel and very slow colour transition works well I think. As for art nouveau it still seems to fit, they mixed shading and flat colours together, which caused the shading to really pop. They also did a lot of wood marquetry and the mountains bring my mind to that comparison rather than anything else, so I feel it suits the style. Better to look good, than to pointlessly stick to the book IMO.