r/mapmaking • u/toasthyl • 1d ago

Work In Progress lil world map + globe

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u/FatPagoda 1d ago

That's a lot of islands.

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u/toasthyl 1d ago

i like em

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u/hayzie93 1d ago

Needs some colour. Really hard to tell what’s water or land.

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u/blue_sidd 1d ago

This needs a figure-ground pass at least once.

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u/adol1004 1d ago

Histoy of ocean voyage is going to be a tales of nightmares.

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u/NukingBonez 1d ago

I don't know what I'm Looking at

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u/toasthyl 1d ago

this was supposed to be a throwaway project but im in too deep now

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u/Standard-Face-51 1d ago

I can't tell where the land ends and water begins for any of this really.

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u/Aware_Masterpiece_92 1d ago

Im kind of a newbie so a question, how do you apply a projection into the map you made?

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u/toasthyl 1d ago

if ur refering to the globe, make a 2:1 ratio map (equirectangular) and then search map to globe on google and click the one by panorama.ai

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u/Weary-Recipe-8409 1d ago

Greater canada

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u/StrangeGrass9878 1d ago

I think I can tell that you started in the bottom left area because some of the islands there were drawn with a much thinner pen tool lol

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u/StrangeGrass9878 1d ago

I think for next project you ought to try using your penmanship to draw texture to the land, maybe with colored pens (dark green hatchmarks for forest, a shadowed/highlighted ridgeline or clifface).
As-is you’ve drawn… probably literally over 10,000 unique islands(!!) because it adds a lot of texture to the map at a glance. However, 10,000 islands Is crazy talk. I think you can exercise your need for texture in a way that’ll also look better.

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u/StrangeGrass9878 1d ago

The globe looks pretty neat too! Just gotta make the water vs land a little more readable as others have said. I can tell the difference just not very easily

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u/InvariantLimiter 13h ago

What is water and what is land?