The Twelve Kingdom of Dacassan (personal project)

[Voolf]

Beautiful map , but, the color tone makes it low contrasted and kind of less visible I think.

Thank you. Hmm, maybe having lines darker would help, but somehow I did not like going any darker than the current colour.

Very nice! I love the border and the style of the labels! A really nice idea, the way the crest is a part of the label. I think some of the text within the scrolls is a tiny bit out of place (I personally would have just tried to have the name sit as centered as possible) but that is really, really nitpicking. The little illustrations are delightful and THAT BEAVER IS ADORABLE AND I LOVE IT. 10/10, map has beaver, map is perfect.

I really like beavers.

Hehe, good to know. Have to draw more of them on maps then .
As for the labels, after you mentioned it. I can see some that could be positioned a bit better. You are right. At a labelling stage I am usually rushing to finish :/

That is D@MN fine work. I'm kind of with Naima; a little bit of sepia shadowing or washes would give it some depth, but that's a minor nitpick - it works beautifully as is. And the frame is awesome.

Thanks Diamond. I agree with the shadows. I actually started them, but realising how much time it would take to properly shade everything, I decided to leave it B&W (so to speak) on a parchment background.

Absolutely love this map! Will you be adding any more shading, or perhaps colour at all? Really awesome work as always though, and I am in love with how you do your forests. Where do you look for inspiration for map borders/frames? It's something I really need to work on as I tend to do rather plain frames or none at all.

Not right now, maybe in the future I will go back to it, but for know I will focus on some other projects.
As for the frames I am not good with them as well. Good inspirations are Francesca Baerald (she is an absolute master), Marc Moureau, l'Arpenteur and Misty Beee.