I always felt the maps in the book while really nice but needed that pull out of the beeches look to them. Make them look like some fantasy mapmaker like Veznett Parooh at The Way North just dusted it off. I used Black Spectrum style map, buildings and all. Thank you to them. I kept the area slightly smaller than the adventure will go, simply because there should be some things off the map.
Russell... That's just awesome!!! Care to reveal any methods how you build that one? Good job!
Yah that was beautiful man!
Russell... That's just awesome!!! Care to reveal any methods how you build that one? Good job!
I was always looking at Andreas Blicher's maps as great work and wanted something for my table the looked like it. Using Black Spectrum's blank paper for a background and it's already produced maps for the look of the elements I started drawing those elements. I noticed that the existing maps had repeated elements such as trees, mountains, hills, and buildings. Everything had a roughened outline on it. With the repeating elements I wanted to use Illustrator so I could create symbols. Everything (except the rivers) use the Effect/Distort & Transform/Roughen to get the shaky hand drawn look. The size is very low sometimes as low as .1%, Absolute, and detail as high as 50/in, points smooth. Have I board everyone yet? As I drew each tree, each mountain, etc. etc. I would place them in the symbols pallet. The outline of the land/water is created using the roughen with a second stroke offset 3 pixels to get the shore right. Everything is placed using the existing Varisa map as a template. After drawing the land masses and lakes turn them into a complex path and add the rivers as a line with two strokes white top rounded end and the wider black stroke on the bottom flat end. Now comes the most grueling part. Dragging the symbols one by one starting at the top onto the map to give depth. The marsh is a pattern with a few grass symbols thrown on. The type is Goudy Oldstyle Bold with a roughen effect, remember to use the selection not the typle tool to add effects to type. Copy and paste the whole thing into photoshop using the parchment as a mask. Now I need to make a compass and title for it. Don't want to use the rune this time since it isn't make by an ancient culture.
I added the compass and scale and found a typo. Let me know if you see any mistakes.
Gorgeous mapping Russell. I would just love one of those for the Korvosa area for my CotCT game.
I have the books but have been to busy prepping the RotRL to really see what is needed.
I added the compass and scale and found a typo. Let me know if you see any mistakes.
Black Spectrum's Warhammer maps are excellent, and yours is also very well done. I noticed a typo: it's "The Storval Stairs", with an r.
Black Spectrum's Warhammer maps are excellent, and yours is also very well done. I noticed a typo: it's "The Storval Stairs", with an r.
shhh! That makes this map a collector's edition :D
Very nice map.
Black Spectrum's Warhammer maps are excellent, and yours is also very well done. I noticed a typo: it's "The Storval Stairs", with an r.
shhh! That makes this map a collector's edition :D
Very nice map.
The change is made. Good luck on the collectors edition idea. Maybe the file you have has multiplied it's value a hundred fold.
That is great map, thanks a ton. I am printing if off right now then going to laminate it and give it to my player thats a pathfinder in Training.
Again Please do more! So good!
Thanks
Dave
Thanks for sharing your methods! Quite clever.
Amazing map ,Russell.. Just right for my players. Look forward to seeing anything else you come up with . Thanks
OK, Whistledown and Galduria are corrected so I hope you hadn't laminated it yet.
OK, I just saw a problem and instead of eliminating it I want to fix it. The water at the bottom of the map i mistakenly labeled the inner sea. It is not what is the name of that body of water? Is it a bay West of Veldraine or is an ocean?
OK the names of the sea and a couple of other things are OK now thanks to James Jacobs. I put in a new Lady of the Light since I felt it was special enough to warrant one.
I used this map as one of the maps in the Foxglove Manor's attic rooms. Seemed to fit real well with the desk full of papers and maps.
Awesome!
You just have to love that fan community!