WIP Tracking the most dangerous man in the world
Tonnichiwa
🖼️ 16 images Surveyor
Hi everyone. I've entered the monthly lite challenge over on the Cartographer's guild. This month's challenge is called "Mapping a dangerous place". So this is my partly finished entry into this months challenge. The drawings on the white areas are supposed to represent sketches done by one of the guys in the whole map story, so they're supposed to look rough and unrefined.
The idea is, someone in America stole an old Mayan relic from a museum and ran off to South America with it. But there is a bounty hunter hot on his trial. So this map is supposed to show the trail that bounty hunter took to find the thief...and ended up finding more than he bargained for.
However, I still need to put in the trail and a few labels. And of course a compass and scale. Then the notes from the guys Sketchbook.
Enjoy
The idea is, someone in America stole an old Mayan relic from a museum and ran off to South America with it. But there is a bounty hunter hot on his trial. So this map is supposed to show the trail that bounty hunter took to find the thief...and ended up finding more than he bargained for.
However, I still need to put in the trail and a few labels. And of course a compass and scale. Then the notes from the guys Sketchbook.
Enjoy
Comments
The guys sketches might need to look a bit more ragged than they do at the moment, though.
I really like the little call out circles
Looks terrific. Great use of the annual!
It is actually two annuals. Annual number 92 "Real World Vector Data", it teaches how to get real world vector data into your cc3 program for use in maps, and Annual number 93 "Modern Journey's", which gives you all of the icons and the cool background. But the map of South America isn't in the Modern Journey's annual. But there is one in the Real World Vector Data. One of the biggest problems with the real world vector data was that I couldn't get the lines that make up South America to be thick enough to be seen when the image was exported. It was very faint.
The answer was adding an effect called "Blur, Alpha" at a scale of 6 and a blur of 1. this gave just enough darkness to the lines so you could see it like it is here.
One of the other problems was that if I tried to use any of the pre-made FCW's from Annual #92, cc3 just kept wanting to re-draw it any time you moved your mouse. So it made it impossible to do anything. My computer just wasn't having it.
Maybe adjust a couple of spellings - to Uruguay and Rio De Janeiro - plus if it's meant to be set in the 1920s-1930s (as the symbol illustrations imply), you might want to think of reducing the Guyana-Surinam-French Guiana labels to just "Guiana", as the three were still British, Dutch and French Guiana (west to east) then, which might make things a bit too cluttered in that area otherwise.
Glad to see Valparaiso made the cut to be included; if there are cultists and Cthulhoid thingies a-slither, you have to have Valparaiso, of course ("Call of Cthulhu" RPG and associated novel references, for anyone unfamiliar)!
@Lorelie Thanks, I'm gonna need all the luck I can get if I'm gonna win that shiny silver compass. There are some good entries appearing over there and I'm not sure if mine will cut it.
Its British Guiana
this is a lot of British Guiana stamps.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=british+guiana+stamps&iax=1&ia=images
So here is the last bit of changes. I'm leaving the name off of the volcano because the guy drawing the map didn't really know which one it was (there are quite a few over there)
Other than that, the map is done. Sorry you probably cannot read the text at this size but it is all the website will allow. If you want to see a bigger one then you can always hop on over to the lite challenge thread on the Cartographer's Guild and it should blow up enough for you to see everything there.
Enjoy
I am putting up one more lesson on the Mapping Class today but it will be the last one until Christmas is over. It's there for anyone who wants to do it.
Great map, btw. I really like this style.