UPDATE: How Everything Is Going - And Starting Again On Symbols
Terraformer_Author
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Hi y'all.
Well - the rollercoaster ride that is just about "par for the course" around here in my little kingdom seems to be settling a bit. My mother is doing fine after her stroke - and is due to be out of the hospital around August 6th - or August 8th (not sure). She doing quite well - but will need some measure of living assistance from here on out. All in all - it could have been a lot worse - and I am thankful that it wasn't. Thank you to everybody, to Jim, to my buddy Shessar, and to everybody else who kept us in your thoughts and prayers. Words have power.
Ok - now back to business. I am going to once again focus my efforts on the Symbols Project that I have been working on. Hopefully when I get this thing done it won't look like crapola, lol.
I am now going to start on the core symbols such as trees, mountains, bridges, towns, hazards, etc.. This set is already up to over 900 symbols - so it should cover feasably just about everything, lol.
As you can see below - I even have symbols for Imperial Mammoths, Siberian Mammoths, and Mastodons.I just have an awful problem with veering off into tangents and drawing what I want to - instead of what I need to, lol. I was calling the Siberian Mammoth an "Oliphant" for a while there - but I decided to go with the original name instead.
Special Note - Remy Monsen and all other contacts - I have changed my email addy - whisper me for an update to contact info.
Well - the rollercoaster ride that is just about "par for the course" around here in my little kingdom seems to be settling a bit. My mother is doing fine after her stroke - and is due to be out of the hospital around August 6th - or August 8th (not sure). She doing quite well - but will need some measure of living assistance from here on out. All in all - it could have been a lot worse - and I am thankful that it wasn't. Thank you to everybody, to Jim, to my buddy Shessar, and to everybody else who kept us in your thoughts and prayers. Words have power.
Ok - now back to business. I am going to once again focus my efforts on the Symbols Project that I have been working on. Hopefully when I get this thing done it won't look like crapola, lol.
I am now going to start on the core symbols such as trees, mountains, bridges, towns, hazards, etc.. This set is already up to over 900 symbols - so it should cover feasably just about everything, lol.
As you can see below - I even have symbols for Imperial Mammoths, Siberian Mammoths, and Mastodons.I just have an awful problem with veering off into tangents and drawing what I want to - instead of what I need to, lol. I was calling the Siberian Mammoth an "Oliphant" for a while there - but I decided to go with the original name instead.
Special Note - Remy Monsen and all other contacts - I have changed my email addy - whisper me for an update to contact info.
Comments
Uh, thanks.
Cool art as always! As a passionate collector of mapping symbols, I can't wait to get my hands on some of these.
I sat down last night and started drawing out some dead tree symbols - and I reviewed some mountains I had sketched out to - and I was trying to get the perspective right on the forward tilt angles of the land forms. they look like they are about 60 degrees obverse of viewer perspective on the default CC3 mountains and towns and such - so that's one thing that I'm trying to work out. I can add the shadow layers - no prob - but I'll have to wip out my 30/60 triangle and my trusty old metal drafting compasses to work out where the perspective angles are - if I decide to get a little more exact than just "playing it by ear" (SEE BELOW GRAPHIC). I didn't use the "30/60 Rule" on the mountains that I have already sketched, but they look about right anyway thus far. I think I'll use some drafting skills on working out construction lines for the buildings / structures though (towns, cities, etc.).
Isometric view has all it axes to 120°. Your 30° angle is right though...
Great work with your symbols! Don't let it stop you
You'll note the question mark in the graphic - which indicates that I kinda sensed that I was doing something wrong there - hence - I was having marginal lucidity, lol.
Also - it really wouldn't hurt me to crack open my Precalc Trig book and bone back up on my math again. Been thinking about maybe going back to school - but I've got to get out of here first, as everything East of the Rockies disagrees with me oh so harshly, lol. Hopefully my brain hasn't decayed beyond the ability to learn - as apparantly my memory is shot, lol
But all that humor is just an aside -- we should probably focus on the wonderful work you are doing! I look forward to the collection being published.
I want to create a symbol collection that is as comprehensive as I can get it. As I see it I have two major hurdles to overcome:
#1, I keep getting new ideas - hence - the collection keeps growing like Georgia Kudzu, and
#2, I need to get these scaled right so that they are truly transparent and don't have a yucky whitish border around them when I do get them scaled.
I need to do the core symbols also - and I'm working on that now.