The Wittan Islands
HelenAA
🖼️ 10 images Surveyor
I'm fully aware that my maps will never reach the pure artistry of the other maps posted here, but I'm satisfied that I couldn't improve on what you see here.
As I was drawing this map, a mini-story grew in my mind about a dying emperor, Ædmund X, and his twin heirs, Helwyn and Farveld. They will go on to split the hegemony in half, and fight for, or defend, disputed land. Where the story goes from there remains to be seen, I'm afraid.
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Have you considered reducing the distance on those shadows for the ocean labels? Shadows seems weirdly far away from the text IMHO.
is this better - personally I'm not that taken with it. Didn't like moving the Drop Shadow in, so fiddled with an Outer Glow. :) Should have left the brighter yellow for the castle names though.
The text did look better in the original with the blue outline, but I don't think the drop shadows did it any favors. How about keeping the text as in the first one, and just eliminate the shadows instead of adding the fuzzy glow?
Here you are
Yea, that looks better IMHO.
I agree. It does look better as it was but without the shadow.
That font your using with the interesting cahracters the O with the cross in it and the combined A and E is pretty cool. What is that? And I concur without shadows looks better, but at the end of the day it comes down to what you think looks better.
I think the font is Avalon Quest.
You can get a combined A and E (Æ) by pressing down the ALT key, and while pressed down input the number 146. This letter is called "ash," from Saxon (Old English)
Or, if you have a Norwegian keyboard, you'll actually have an 'Æ' key on your keyboard :)
Since the Norman invasion Monsen we've had to do it the hard way.
I like this map a lot, in particular the place names. The simple names land in a way that the High Elvish (or whatever) place names don't always. It makes me feel like even though this is a map I'm looking at only briefly, it's populated by real people who see these features every day. They don't need to come up with a fancy name for the island that looks like a dancer's leg, they just call it what it looks like and go home to the important work of mending their nets or whatever it is that sustains them.
my favourites are Guitar Isle and Doubtful Waters, @macdanny . I'm glad you like my names.