Custom Made Worlds (IMAGES)

[crabclaw]

Yea if I was working for a publisher with an art team we could work these color discrepancies out on the fly -- but as it is I'm batting e-mail back and forth with Destan.

In the end, I'm going to send Destan the Photoshop file with all the layers (and there are many) and will give them permission to have their graphic artist make any additions or change that they feel is best for their over all product.

I might work on toning down the green – as far as grasslands go – I have had no word on that part.

Destan if you see this post we will pick up working on this map after the writing project is complete as we discussed.

 

[crabclaw]

Here is a sample of the quality I am pushing towards with my own cartographic process. I think this, as a design, would be the ultimate. Furthermore I know I have the skill to produce this quality of work at high resolution and large format outputs and even better as I decorate my maps with fantasy ornamentations. The thing is the modeling part would become more tedious than ever! Therefore time consuming. A fair commission would be the motivational spark I would need. Question for publishers investing in such a commission would be: will the market of role-playing and fantasy fans buy products with such maps? By the end of this Summer I will be posting sample to prove my words.

***See Sample Here***

 

[crabclaw]

Thanks James Heard,

Your word motivated me to go back and give the map more lively colors.

And did a bit to burn the rivers into the soil a little more.

See Picture Above^^^

 

[James Heard]

Hmm, I don't see it?

 

[crabclaw]

Scroll up -- I just replaced the old picture with the new one

 

[James Heard]

Oh, I thought there was supposed to be an image attached to the post

My bad.

 

[crabclaw]

The border was scanned from an existing map -- if the publishers want to they can get their graphic artist to reproduce it in illustrator and photoshop. That would take me half a day to reproduce that myself, though I would make it look better -- I can't do everything by my self unless I was getting paid to do so -- don't get me wrong I am very happy and proud to be given the chance to what I can for this project

Destan if you read this, what is the name and description of the overall project anyway?

 

[crabclaw]

Question: Refering to the map at the top of this post -- which is the latest rendition -- I am not satisfied with the dot-icons for the cities -- but considering the output scale (11 x 17) a dot is pretty much all one will discern -- anyone have any suggestions or am I right for just to using dots?

 

[Fargoth]

Go with the dots Crabclaw. At the scale you're working with a city, village or other settlement symbol just wouldn't look right. The dots are fine and can mean myriad things depending on the colors and such used.

I recently gave up trying to create nice settlement images for my maps as well and went with the good ol' dots!

They look fine.

Regards,
Paul

 

[crabclaw]

Thank you Paul -- I'm leaning to that conclusion too. But If I decide to print at 22 x 36 I might put in little city icons.