Paksworld

Last night, I started playing with my map image in the computer.  What would happen if…???   Well…first of all…I got it to black on white and not black on gray.  Then…how about a nice, aged-cream background so it looks old?  And wait, wouldn’t it be nice to have it kind of smudgy, like a map that’s been used a long time?   A little airbrushing with two different colors, using a tool that let me control density and opacity brought that out nicely.  I thought of trying to add, say, a blood-stain, or a blotchy mark from spilled wine or ale, but that would take more skill than I have with the mouse as a drawing tool.  It occurred to me (but I haven’t take the time yet for this, which will require going back to pen & ink, as I would have to for the “liquid-stain” effect)  that I could “distress” the edges of this strip map, too, as if it were torn or cut from a larger map for the convenience of someone who needed only that much.

Now back to reality…I need to get the actual map down to the reproduction place.

And I have a further question for you, if you’ll pardon a lazy writer.  I keep misplacing my reference copy of the Paks book and I need the name of the count who sort-of-governs the area north of Brewersbridge.   Anybody?

Detail of map

This is just a tiny part of the map,  shrunken to make it fit nicely.