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CristianAndreu — [Commission] Map of Equilas
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Published: 2016-04-05 03:26:21 +0000 UTC; Views: 6757; Favourites: 70; Downloads: 26
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Done as a favour for a good friend, this map depicts his world of Equilas, a star-shaped continent criss-crossed by bottomless chasms.Done in Photoshop. Fonts used as Cardinal (for regions), Castellar (for water bodies), Charlemagne (for mountains), and Minion Pro (for individual locations).
Part of the texture was done using an Old Paper Texture from ibackgroundz.
Update 30-05-2016: Made some minor adjustments to labels and cleaned up some errors.
In related news, my friend's novel for which this map was made ("Crónicas de Équilas: La Espada de la Luna Rota") has just been published by Planeta for the Chilean market (and, hopefully, in other countries in the near future). You can find additional information here (in Castilian): www.facebook.com/cronicasdeequ…
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Mapa dibujado para un gran amigo, representando su mundo de Équilas, un continente con forma de estrella atravesado por sendos abismos sin fondo que surgieron luego de una devastadora hecatombe.
Hecho en Photoshop. Las fuentes usadas son Cardinal (para los nombres de regiones y naciones), Castellar (para cuerpos de agua), Charlemagne (para las montañas) y Minion Pro (para ubicaciones especificas).
Parte de la textura de fue confeccionada a partir de Old Paper Texture obtenida de ibacgroundz.
Actualizacion del 30-05-2016: Hecho algunos ajustes menores al texto y limpiado algunos errores.
En noticias relacionada, la novela para la cual este mapa fue hecho ("Crónicas de Équilas: La Espada de la Luna Rota") acaba de ser publicada por Planeta para el mercado chileno (e, idealmente, en un futuro proximo en otros paises). Pueden encontrar mas información aqui: www.facebook.com/cronicasdeequ…
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This is brill! Can I ask, what's the scale? In terms of inches-to-miles?
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Much appreciated!
The scale was never truy specified by the author; there was an initial notion that the continent was "about the size of Europe", but then the weather patterns made it unlikely to be that small, so we toyed around with ocean currents and severe planetary axis tilt to justify the presence of ice on both the north and south.
We finally settled on "about 5,000 kilometres (3,100 miles) from westernmost to easternmost tips", which would make this map roughly 1.07 kilometres per pixel (about 0.66 miles per pixel), which at 300 dpi would make this map 322 kms per inch (or almost exactly 200 miles per inch).
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Much appreciated!
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