
ARTSLAM DAY 2: SOMEWHERE, A CARTOGRAPHER IS CRYING
Today was mostly about finally sitting down and naming various regions and finally placing locations discussed in previous worldbuilding posts on my bloge in relation to each other. Some miscelaneous information:
-Idar-Khazun is the highlands, while Idar-Darsa is the lowlands.
-Cateja (both the peninsula and the island) is volcanic and is home to a people with a long and proud tradition of burning and pillaging any place they can feasibly sail to.The Catetsoja are closely related to the Erkatsol - presumably,the proto-Erkatsol/Catetsoja arrived from the northeastern or northern continent to Samitra, and a portion of that population ended up migrating more than halfway across the continent and settling in Erkal.
-Lake Sulhom is huge, deep, and home to some jerk aquatic god - same goes for the Dukara.
-The people of the Forking Path are originally from Ishnana:we, but they follow the extremely eccentric and unnecessarily lengthy circuit of their migratory god with clockwork precision. They have a very close and unusually amicable relationship with their god, whom they worship almost exclusively.
-Bhati and Njaa Tupu have very few human inhabitants, compensating for that in non-human sapients.
Although this map is heavily simplified and stylized as heck, it will prove useful in making local maps for particular regions, as well as political and historical maps.
I really don’t know how to geography well, so a lot of this probably doesn’t make sense. Which is fine - there will be other, better and more complicated iterations.
Today was mostly about finally sitting down and naming various regions and finally placing locations discussed in previous worldbuilding posts on my bloge in relation to each other. Some miscelaneous information:
-Idar-Khazun is the highlands, while Idar-Darsa is the lowlands.
-Cateja (both the peninsula and the island) is volcanic and is home to a people with a long and proud tradition of burning and pillaging any place they can feasibly sail to.The Catetsoja are closely related to the Erkatsol - presumably,the proto-Erkatsol/Catetsoja arrived from the northeastern or northern continent to Samitra, and a portion of that population ended up migrating more than halfway across the continent and settling in Erkal.
-Lake Sulhom is huge, deep, and home to some jerk aquatic god - same goes for the Dukara.
-The people of the Forking Path are originally from Ishnana:we, but they follow the extremely eccentric and unnecessarily lengthy circuit of their migratory god with clockwork precision. They have a very close and unusually amicable relationship with their god, whom they worship almost exclusively.
-Bhati and Njaa Tupu have very few human inhabitants, compensating for that in non-human sapients.
Although this map is heavily simplified and stylized as heck, it will prove useful in making local maps for particular regions, as well as political and historical maps.
I really don’t know how to geography well, so a lot of this probably doesn’t make sense. Which is fine - there will be other, better and more complicated iterations.
Category Artwork (Digital) / All
Species Unspecified / Any
Size 1280 x 941px
File Size 247.2 kB
it's a fairly lengthy process, and i'm really new to it, so here's a couple of tutorials i used while making this:
http://www.cartographersguild.com/c.....photoshop.html
http://www.cartographersguild.com/c.....oastlines.html
i'd also suggest looking at other people's fantasy maps - the one i referenced for this was the map for Dragon Age: Jinan (http://dragonagejinan.tumblr.com/po.....cognition-with)
best of luck with mapmaking!!
http://www.cartographersguild.com/c.....photoshop.html
http://www.cartographersguild.com/c.....oastlines.html
i'd also suggest looking at other people's fantasy maps - the one i referenced for this was the map for Dragon Age: Jinan (http://dragonagejinan.tumblr.com/po.....cognition-with)
best of luck with mapmaking!!
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