Making Map Art - Any Tutorial?

[Troller0001]

I was wondering if anyone has encountered a (good) map making tutorial (here on civfanatics) for making map art for custom civilizations? I have looked in the 'Tutorials' subforum, though sadly I could not find one there.

So if someone knows of such a tutorial, or has even followed such a tutorial, would he/she be so generous to share it with me in this thread?

Thanks in advance!

 

[sman1975]

You can try this, it will probably help a lot:

https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/sukritacts-cartography-outline.499730/

For me, though, map making is painful - takes a lot of time to get the hang of it. But of course, I'm not an artist. Not even close.

Good luck!

 

[Troller0001]

Thank you kind sir. I will share the result here if the result does not look like some monkey shat all over the screen seriously awful

 

[Troller0001]

As promised, here is the semi-final result (with WIP versions included!). (Made using GIMP)

Initial Map:

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Without extra background images

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Semi-Final Result

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EDIT: Ignore the random 'La' in the middle of the map, I forgot to hide it when exporting

I must say that this turned out way better than expected, and I'm honestly really satisfied with this being my first try!
Kudos to Sukritact's amazing Tutorial!

I'll refine the result a bit more, after which I can call it completely done.



EDIT: The refined result (map colours were changed so the focus lies more on 'current Monaco' rather than on the Annexed part only)

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It's still nowhere near Sukritact's level, but you gotta start somewhere right?