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    Map Atoll Dock-town of Nukshan

    I realised today that I have not popped in here for an age... This year has been crazy in many not-mapping time-eating ways.

    This is my most recent personal project though, finished a couple months ago.
    I really wanted to have a go a drawing a town that is mostly over water, on docks and rafts and old ships, with the land used for crops, plantations and food-forests... and which felt as tropical as possible.

    The clouds are perhaps a little too much..... But my favorite thing to do with a map is to create a sense of depth, and without them it really looks so very flat.
    The frame is inspired by Tapa-cloth patterning style of the Collingwood Bay area of Papua New Guinea


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    Oh Wow!!! I just absolutely love this!!! This map just sucks you into it. Incredible work.

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    Great map!

    Though I'm not a fan of the clouds, because it obscures the great map. Perhaps the water could have been used to add the depth you want? Anyways great work!

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    Thanks both of you :-)

    re the clouds... I thought about adding a hint of some underwater structures for depth and in the end decided not to clutter up the water areas.
    I did export a cloudless variation, though to me it feels less alive somehow - the water surface texture is maybe too flat
    The clouds are not actually hiding anything... just feels like maybe they are! :-)
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    Quote Originally Posted by Misjay Maps View Post
    Thanks both of you :-)

    re the clouds... I thought about adding a hint of some underwater structures for depth and in the end decided not to clutter up the water areas.
    I did export a cloudless variation, though to me it feels less alive somehow - the water surface texture is maybe too flat
    The clouds are not actually hiding anything... just feels like maybe they are! :-)
    Lol. You're right. Really changes the feel a lot. Hmm...

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    Its amazing the effect those clouds have! It looks like a completely new map without them. I really like the details in the map though. However, I would not want to be piloting some of those bigger ships into/out of the atoll - that entrances looks like a close call for some of their lengths to make the turn

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    Great map! The view from afar and without the clouds make me think of a jaw, somehow.

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    same Ilanther! or a skull. or a bearded fellow wearing a peaked hat. or jaws.

    Arimel... yeah... they are rather narrow, i agree - but a great way to keep strangers out don't you think?

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