The Garnok region of Baldimar

[StillCypher]

I have been absent from the forums for what feels like forever -- and it'll take me about that long to catch up!

Joe, I want to tell you how much I like the way this map of yours is progressing. I really like how you did the mountains (and i now have the tutorial bookmarked for later reading!). I'm looking forward to seeing how this comes out!

[jfrazierjr]

I have been absent from the forums for what feels like forever -- and it'll take me about that long to catch up!

Joe, I want to tell you how much I like the way this map of yours is progressing. I really like how you did the mountains (and i now have the tutorial bookmarked for later reading!). I'm looking forward to seeing how this comes out!

Welcome back!

Thanks! It's going really slow, but I am glad you like it and hope you can get something out of the tutorial. It is slow going with work and other stuff going on, so I will get around to finishing this map at some point....

[jfrazierjr]

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.

[Karro]

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.

[jfrazierjr]

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.

Thats because I was dumb and saved this as a jpg instead of a png as the original was... will update when I get a chance..

[jfrazierjr]

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.

[Ramah]

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?

[jfrazierjr]

You sure do like to take your time with a map, don't you?

Yea well... real life sucks some time...lol

Looking really nice though. When do you expect to have it finished?

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...

[Karro]

Yea well... real life sucks some time...lol

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.

[jfrazierjr]

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.