I'm Making a Nautical Chart! (sorta)

[KMAlexander]

I debated putting this in General & Misc, but since it's barrows heavily from modern styles, I figured this would be the best place.

With the launch of the fourth book in my series coming soon, I decided to offer up another map of the area for my readers, this time focusing on the archipelago just west of the primary location. (There's a narrative reason for this, but this is a forum for map talk, not book talk!) I decided I liked the idea of creating a nautical chart, but since city-states populate the world, it makes more sense that a chart like this would come from volunteer sources. So the entire map isn't filled out. There's plenty of "Here Be Monsters" sort of areas, and some of the data is... er, debatable. It'd be like if NOAA said, "here's a chart with some strongly worded suggestions," and had no real teeth (the U.S. or Canadian Coast Guard) to back it up.

Here's where I started. Using Illustrator for the base and then roughing it up and adding texture and such in Photoshop.