Mapmaking and Rambling! by oblivioncubed

worldbuilding · @oblivioncubed · Feb 9 '20

$15.57

Mapmaking and Rambling!

It's been a busy weekend around my household, and I've had little time to even *think* about a Steem post. Today, in between chasing a 1-and-a-half year old boy, and general normal housework, I did manage to fit a small bit of mapmaking however!

<center>![image.png](https://files.steempeak.com/file/steempeak/oblivioncubed/mwBayQZA-image.png)</center>

The new version is really coming along I think, and I'm proud of my progress. I have a lot to learn yet as far as cartography goes, but this is a vast improvement over the old style (which you can see I'm using as a reference above the new map).

There are definitely some things that I think I would do differently now, but I've been working on completing the things I start despite flaws and imperfections. So, I'll finish this entirely before I consider another re-do of the map, haha. But, for my first real update to my style in over a decade - I think this is a great start. In the interest of full disclosure, *much* of this style is inspired by [WASD20's tutorials on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2q-eDLiqtdg), though it is a bit of a hodge-podge of my own attempts and things he shows.

I think if I were to restart this, I would probably avoid the colour highlights and go pure black-and-white. I'd probably also chose a different style of mountains and trees. But, like I said, I'm going to see this through to completion before I judge it too harshly!

Today's final progress was:

<center>![image.png](https://files.steempeak.com/file/steempeak/oblivioncubed/w9II5mHV-image.png)</center>

Which completes all the mountains on the map. I hope that once this is fully complete it's not too busy, but we will see how it turns out!

I've got some new pens coming in the mail that should arrive by Wednesday, with a **lot** finer tips, so I should have more control in the width of lines, and I think that will definitely be helpful.

Well, I think that's all for today. Just a quick update on what I've been working on. Thanks for reading! Hope you've all had a great weekend.

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@c-squared · Feb 14 '20

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@oblivioncubed · Feb 14 '20

Thank you very much!

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@shaidon · Feb 14 '20

It looks pretty cool so far. Keep up the great work.
I had to make a map for a competition on Steem once using only a mouse. It wasn’t the best image but it won the competition.

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@oblivioncubed · Feb 14 '20

Haha, wow that would be difficult! I'm *not* good with just mouse! Thanks for the comment :D

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@shaidon · Feb 15 '20

No worries. Yeah it takes a bit of practice.

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