World of Lykarnia: Cartography

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World of Lykarnia: Cartography

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Okay so it's not "art" in the sense of this forum but I consider Cartography a type of art in itself. Here's some work in progress stuff from our cartographer Andy Males. Enjoy!

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Looking great! And cartography is certainly art.
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I agree - he's so talented. I cannot wait to finally see Lykarnia as it should be!
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Oh, cartography is definitely art. The exacting and precision detail plus a sense of aesthetics required by the art is entirely within the scope of this section.
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Holy lord, those are nice maps!
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Cartography is not only art in an aesthetic sense but demonstrates a passing familiarity of climate effects and causes, hydrology, and geology. All arts in themselves as much as sciences.

What is started looks good...
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Its Art when its good!
And this is good!
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The successive use of texture layers is excellent.
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I was thinking that too! It keeps it really clean and professional.

Extremely good map rendering and digital software skills!
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It may not be the best RPG ever, but by jebus it's going to have awesome art!
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What rpg is it?
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Joe wrote:
What rpg is it?

The world map is for a setting for a RPG we've been working in-house on for the last year or so. If you want to learn more you can check it out on our forum here
http://www.penandpapergames.com/forums/ ... .php?f=193

or on our facebook fanpage if you happen to use facebook.
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