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I'm playing around with a style inspired by the Ottoman "Book on Navigation," published circa 1525. Most of the maps use swooping, craggy coastlines to show all of the coves and other areas to shelter a ship (my coastlines are less craggy). The mountains are often strangely situated and colorful, which I tried to faithfully recreate. Most of the maps also use gold leaf, which I've captured here thanks to an open license photo of a gold bar.

Everything other than the gold texture, paper background, and text was hand-drawn in Photoshop using a Wacom Intuous tablet. The font is Aceh Darusalam, also open license, available atdafont.com. The paper background is an image of a blank page from the Book on Navigation available in the Walters Art Gallery's online collection, which I then edited in Photoshop.

Description
I'm playing around with a style inspired by the Ottoman "Book on Navigation," published circa 1525. Most of the maps use swooping, craggy coastlines to show all of the coves and other areas to shelter a ship (my coastlines are less craggy). The mountains are often strangely situated and colorful, which I tried to faithfully recreate. Most of the maps also use gold leaf, which I've captured here thanks to an open license photo of a gold bar.

Everything other than the gold texture, paper background, and text was hand-drawn in Photoshop using a Wacom Intuous tablet. The font is Aceh Darusalam, also open license, available atdafont.com. The paper background is an image of a blank page from the Book on Navigation available in the Walters Art Gallery's online collection, which I then edited in Photoshop.