California [Quenched]

[Victor Sullivan]

This map is plowing through! Hopefully we'll pass the Graphics Workshop in a speedy fashion, too

[The Bison King]

Sweetness.

[RjBeals]

Shouldn't the title be "on" the banner instead of above it?



BTW - nice work on the map - looking great.

[The Bison King]

It could be either really. I'll play around with that later. I may end up re-doing that banner I'm a little disappointed with it to be honest.


Since I'm rebuild the image (re-piecing it together not drawing/painting) does anyone have any big compositional suggestions? No would be the best time to tell me.

[Victor Sullivan]

You should do something "flashy" to reflect California properly. This would also be good to set it apart from the "just a state map" mentality.

There!

[The Bison King]

Much better, but what is "flashy" to you?

[Victor Sullivan]

Much better, but what is "flashy" to you?

Bright colors, exaggerated stylizing, etc. etc...

[The Bison King]

I'm really sorry for the long delay. I've been more focused on my other map right now. hopefully I'll update soon but I probably won't start giving this the attention it needs until 7 nations is in Beta.

[The Bison King]

Good news, I've got back to work on this map. I'll probably be posting again by early next week if not sooner.

[The Bison King]

Click image to enlarge.

...well... sooner. Here's the the new large I'm re-building. The map it's self is a little larger so most things have a little more space. The mountains are new too. I still need to figure out how I want to do cities. I'm thinking I might do something like the first Italy map. Also I need to figure out what to do with the negative space to the right of the map, because I never really planed on keeping what I had on he last draft.

[Industrial Helix]

Looking at this map I feel like I'm being assaulted by a rainbow of color. Which is good in the sense that it conveys sun, ect... but bad in the sense that I think it's getting jumbled up. I mean, look at the transition of color from the LA inset to the mainland to the minimap... its all very intense.

One possible solution is to desaturate the colors outside of LA in the inset, same for the Bay area. Then something ought to be done about all that white around the minimap... something to make the vibrancy of the minimap colors not compete so hard with the main map.

Lastly, the lines when you zoomed in to make the inset are all overly blurry. Either rescan it at a higher resolution or re do the back lines in photoshop.

As for the cities, doing it like the italy map is quite lame and I think you can do better. What about little city symbols, perhaps somewhat unique to the cities they represent. Each could have the principle buildings of the city represented. You've got the talent for it so you might as well.

[The Bison King]

One possible solution is to desaturate the colors outside of LA in the inset, same for the Bay area.

Are you sure you didn't mean to say saturate? I'm a little confused by this, especially referring to the bay Area which is already pretty saturated.

Then something ought to be done about all that white around the minimap... something to make the vibrancy of the minimap colors not compete so hard with the main map.

Agreed and I'm taking suggestions

Lastly, the lines when you zoomed in to make the inset are all overly blurry. Either rescan it at a higher resolution or re do the back lines in photoshop.

I'll see what I can do.

As for the cities, doing it like the italy map is quite lame and I think you can do better. What about little city symbols, perhaps somewhat unique to the cities they represent.

Yeah that could be cool, though, I don't think a lot of those cities have particularly recognizable buildings.

Looking at this map I feel like I'm being assaulted by a rainbow

That's what happens when you go to California

[Victor Sullivan]

I find the "Pacific Ocean" strange. Okay, I can see the water color effect and that's all well and good, but it doesn't really look like an ocean. Also, the ocean seems zoomed in a lot, in comparison to the land; the grain is much larger in the ocean than on the land. And I agree with IH, the white in the East is atrocious and should be fixed with maybe a muted brown or a tan of some sort, to signify there's land there. That being said, I don't feel assaulted by a rainbow (at least, I don't think so, never been assaulted by a rainbow before ), I think the colors are nice as is, though I'm still not sure I like this style for California. Also, the zoomed-in parts bleeding into the zoomed-out parts looks really strange to me.

-Sully

[RedBaron0]

The look is nice.... but I think is getting a little tired. I'd like to see you go in a different direction, broaden your horizons a little. I really hate to think this style is all you got.

Besides California is a modern, real place, unlike Celtic 7 or Thyseneal. I really think you'll need more graphically than the water color to pass this one though. It's early still, I'm looking forward to seeing what you got!

[Victor Sullivan]

The look is nice.... but I think is getting a little tired. I'd like to see you go in a different direction, broaden your horizons a little. I really hate to think this style is all you got.

Besides California is a modern, real place, unlike Celtic 7 or Thyseneal. I really think you'll need more graphically than the water color to pass this one though. It's early still, I'm looking forward to seeing what you got!

Yes, I agree:

You should do something "flashy" to reflect California properly. This would also be good to set it apart from the "just a state map" mentality.