Second draft - Let me have it now, pull no punches and destroy my fledgling cartography career.
Posted Oct 28, 2019, 5:38 AM UTC
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I like the coast and water
When you switch from grass to trees, try prying a mottled pattern of colours to make it look less harsh. Also you forest clumps could be less ovular and more random/natural looking
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Hey! cool map! I like the Callthis lake section, really cool feature.
One thing, all your rivers do kind-of the same thing? long path into a converging lake. Maybe have them have some differences? For instance, you could have one of them run with a number of tributaries into it, sort of like this:
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Hey, you're right about the river. All my rivers (except the one in the east with an unseen origin) are uncharacteristically short. I'll have to alter the terrain in some parts to accommodate longer rivers.
Thanks.
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Lets callthis a lake shall we :)
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I love seeing the evolution from your first draft. Nothing but progress. Your coastlines and rivers have improved dramatically. My only real criticism is that I would apply the same zoomed in attention to the coastlines of your new land masses to the north and south as they are too smooth.
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Love the ocean/sea shading. Your mountains also look detailed and they're just neat. Tho I think you should work on two things: rivers and coasts. Think someone commented on the rivers. Most of them are usually longer and more ermm wavy? Got no idea how to say it properly in english. Also many smaller ones connect to larger ones. Also note on this, rivers go through the lowest possible area. I feel you should work a little more on costal areas, they seem not detailed as much as as tge rest of your map. It may just be me, but northern (I thinks it's north at least) part of Elphield, mainly the coast seems way too clean and square. So yeah, that's what I think. Honestly it's a great looking map, but there are things to improve. Good work
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I see what you mean about the coastlines. I'll work on the Elphield coast. Rivers are my bane right now but thanks for your input.
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This looks cool. You should consider painting more of the ocean. The land is well textured it feels like the ocean should be too.
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First draft was this one here.
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Looks beautiful :) keep up the great work :)
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Thank you man :)
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Nice map, but a small critique would be that two of your islands resemble Iceland and Greenland a little too much
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Do you mean in terms of the terrain or climate? Because I've just had a quick look at Greenland and Iceland and they're not shaped like my islands.
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This is shaping up wonderfully! Very nice detail on the mountains
Thank you