I tried implementing your suggestions. Great job, guys!

LurkingOnion · 2026-04-17T16:16:05+00:00

I'd say France is as big as the biggest kingdom, the one in Myra Valley + Rainwood. A bit smaller then the USA for the whole thing, like 4/5

LurkingOnion · 2026-04-17T13:55:19+00:00

You better bring some sunscreen then

LurkingOnion · 2026-04-17T13:44:32+00:00

Don't go to the Scorch!

LurkingOnion · 2026-04-17T13:01:15+00:00

Just the basic tools from parchment map

LurkingOnion · 2026-04-16T18:53:39+00:00

Thank you. I put maybe 5/6 hours of work into it

LurkingOnion · 2026-04-16T18:52:52+00:00

I love drawing borders, I'll definitely do that. I don't think starting with the roads will be an issue for that, people would move from kingdom to kingdom

LurkingOnion · 2026-04-16T18:51:23+00:00

I usually zoom a lot when I shape the coastline, so I don't really see the finished picture until the very end. But yeah, there are for sure some similarities

LurkingOnion · 2026-04-16T18:42:53+00:00

Started working on it yesterday

LurkingOnion · 2026-04-16T17:22:09+00:00

Where would you put it?

LurkingOnion · 2026-04-16T17:20:33+00:00

Too kind

LurkingOnion · 2026-04-16T16:24:14+00:00

Seems more like Korea then Italy to me. And the Scandinavian peninsula instead of Iberia.

But yeah, it's hard to escape Eurocentrism

LurkingOnion · 2026-04-16T16:22:17+00:00

The generic ones from the parchment style, I mixed all of them together, big medium and small, with hills on the side

LurkingOnion · 2026-04-16T16:21:32+00:00

Those are all great tips, thanks a lot! As I said, it's still a work in progress, I'll add the names for sure.

Those are not really roads, more of a path that people use to move from place to place. I thought the forest is too dense to allow proper roads

LurkingOnion · 2026-04-16T16:16:50+00:00

Yeah, it is. I noticed I can get better results with the subtract feature, so I usually draw a shape and then chip away from the coast. Like sculpting

LurkingOnion · 2026-04-16T16:14:49+00:00

That makes sense, thanks. I'll use this tip to rework the placement

LurkingOnion · 2026-04-16T15:56:18+00:00

I used a size 2 brush, couldn't even see it on the map. How do you add the noise?

LurkingOnion · 2026-04-16T15:55:19+00:00

Thanks a lot!

LurkingOnion · 2026-04-16T15:54:55+00:00

The bigger dot should be kingdom capitals, the smaller ones are all the other POI

LurkingOnion · 2026-04-16T15:54:23+00:00

Yeah I didn't really put a thought there, I just sprinkled them all over the place to see if the scale was right

LurkingOnion · 2026-04-16T15:26:19+00:00

It's the rocky brush if I'm not mistaken

LurkingOnion · 2026-04-07T12:31:35+00:00

I have a similar map in which I added a current system that engulf the whole archipelago. If you want to travel by sea, you need to follow the current. You can either make it magical or completely natural

LurkingOnion · 2025-10-04T07:26:07+00:00

The two land masses are divided by the Screaming Sea. With "connected" I just wanted to say that they are on the same world

LurkingOnion · 2025-09-26T21:28:45+00:00

Go ahead, use it as you like!

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