Middan'ord: The Realmdom of Thwendar

FarsightX3

I am proud to say that I am happy with my latest map. I know you guys are probably sick of me posting the same one with varying iterations but I hope you all like this one. I am hoping this is my final iteration. Its the one I am most pleased with. Its as 'realistic' as I could get.

I know many in the mapping community don't like or understand the type of maps I design and that is okay. I wanted to post it anyways.

I came up with the world name, Middan'ord from old English as a derivative of middle. I added ord as the suffix because I thought it sounded more medieval than fantasy.


Hi-res Image here: https://www1.picturepush.com/photo/a/16812130/img/Book-Maps/Thwendar.jpg

Royal Scribe

I love it. And I personally never get sick of seeing iterations of the same map. I love seeing how they evolve.

Ricko

Maybe the colors of the rivers should be a little lighter to give a better contrast with the strong green of the territory?

Loopysue

It is amazingly detailed :)

Those mountains are good. Where did you get them?

FarsightX3

Ricko said:

Maybe the colors of the rivers should be a little lighter to give a better contrast with the strong green of the territory?

What color are you thinking of? I used the default hex color from spectrum rivers and added a blur to it. To me, "rivers" are not the prominent source of my maps. However, you were thinking of popping them out more?

FarsightX3

Loopysue said:

It is amazingly detailed

Those mountains are good. Where did you get them?

Hi Sue, don't hate me but I did generate them from ai using my own detailed prompt. I do can do graphic design but I can't draw or do art so I generated them in the color and style I'd like. For the Rookstones it was difficult to align the perspective as the ones in the north, but its the best of my ability to the ai's limitations. I mean if you want to use them or be inspired by them for the CC4 default mountains catalogue I won't complain lol

Loopysue

Why should I hate you?

They look good :)

I have to be very careful not to use AI generated art in my work. There are too many foggy areas around copyright. Everything I make for Profantasy has to be squeaky clean, for obvious reasons.

FarsightX3

Loopysue said:

Why should I hate you?

They look good

I have to be very careful not to use AI generated art in my work. There are too many foggy areas around copyright. Everything I make for Profantasy has to be squeaky clean, for obvious reasons.

I know most artist dislike AI, I wasn't sure where you stood on that. I think AI should be used to enhance/compliment not replace. Yeah for sure, I understand that for sure. Squeaky clean is the way to go!

Ricko

https://forum.profantasy.com/discussion/comment/124710#Comment_124710

the dark blue camouflages itself with the strong green of the territory.

perhaps a slightly lighter color to detail them better, a matter of testing with the colors in the palette.

More darker would certainly make it even harder to read them on the map.

Calibre

Excellent map, my friend

But let's tweak a bit.

The background land is, IMO, too dark and too uniform. Use Adjust Hue/Saturation on whatever SHEET your land is on (might be BACKGROUND) add lightness of 5 or more depending on your like.

Add a polygon or use the tool to add a polygon underneath the mountains with an EDGE FADE to differentiate the LAND terrain from the MOUNTAIN terrain.

Add various polygons of differing colors in the same range as the land to break up the LAND so it doesn't read as one piece. Place them in areas that seem logical to suggest height.

Add an OUTER GLOW and INNER GLOW to the contour of the coast (blues and whites) along with an EDGE STRIPING to set the land more firmly into the water.

that's my opinion

😁

If you want assistance on all this, just let us know.

Cal