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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kaleon Moonshae" data-source="post: 1650548" data-attributes="member: 12147">I'm of a mixed opinion here (except bout your maps which are gorgeous). As an artist I do like to sit down and do most of my maps by hand (maybe because it is the only time I get to use those skills elarned in college now) but I also really enjoy computer maps. It doesn't really matter what system either. I like both for fantasy and modern maps. As a drafter I tend to prefer very exacting maps and so it takes me ages to do them right and am never completely satisfied. I like to do a rough sketch then scan it in and work on cleaning the major lines and such on the computer then print it out and combination trace/modify for the final product. I also hate repitition in mapping and think that is where many cgi mappers fail. For my own setting I use a combination of 'tech' maps and 'mood maps.' The islands that have been explored and that are populated are mostly all mapped out in detail and there is not much room to negotiate. This is due to the fact that the islands are very small and that is the only land in my world. For islands that are not populated I either have a very rough sketch of the outline and coast or maybe even just a poem/passage that describes it. There are air ships and technology in my world (of varying degrees), so I think it would be lax on my part not to make maps that are of the same quality as modern maps fr places where people live (even so far as creating a grid structure similar to township range).A little info on my world that might affect the way I do maps: It is formed from an orbit of asteroids caught in a tube of elemental air rotating around a small glowing sun that is actually an idiot god (ala azathoth). The islands are very small and the populated ones are very densely inhabited.</blockquote>

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