RP/Writing Meme: 14
Aug. 24th, 2010 07:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
meej14. How do you map out locations, if needed? Do you have any to show us?
ICON IS APPROPRIATE, I ASSURE YOU.
I am not gifted in the field of art. I do stick-people, barely, and at times I have been known to make some sweet squiggles with fat-tip markers. Sometimes I'll haul out the sidewalk chalk and make some still lifes (with peach).
However, I'm fairly proficient with graphing, and maps are basically applied graphing, it being completely immaterial if you can draw a sweet-ass compass rose or not. My maps tend to focus on roads, cities, terrain between cities, and the hazards of environment as presented by human, or near-human, travel. Like, it is eight hundred miles in a straight line from Vajra the gate-city to Pura, the holy city, but since it is on the Hostroad, it will take just about eight days in a straight line. (Well, it's eight hundred miles from Vajra to the shores of the frozen lake; past that, horses or other beasts of burden cannot go. Something about their hearts exploding, or whatever. Pandemonium is strange.)
They are basically lines and dots, color-coded for terrain; I would show them to you BUT I CANNOT FIGURE OUT THE SCANNER. :(
ICON IS APPROPRIATE, I ASSURE YOU.
I am not gifted in the field of art. I do stick-people, barely, and at times I have been known to make some sweet squiggles with fat-tip markers. Sometimes I'll haul out the sidewalk chalk and make some still lifes (with peach).
However, I'm fairly proficient with graphing, and maps are basically applied graphing, it being completely immaterial if you can draw a sweet-ass compass rose or not. My maps tend to focus on roads, cities, terrain between cities, and the hazards of environment as presented by human, or near-human, travel. Like, it is eight hundred miles in a straight line from Vajra the gate-city to Pura, the holy city, but since it is on the Hostroad, it will take just about eight days in a straight line. (Well, it's eight hundred miles from Vajra to the shores of the frozen lake; past that, horses or other beasts of burden cannot go. Something about their hearts exploding, or whatever. Pandemonium is strange.)
They are basically lines and dots, color-coded for terrain; I would show them to you BUT I CANNOT FIGURE OUT THE SCANNER. :(
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Date: 2010-08-25 02:46 am (UTC)I love you and your Graycloaks. <3
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Date: 2010-08-25 12:01 pm (UTC)Seriously: WAT.
Graycloaks say you could possibly serve them in some capacity until you are exiled the first time you sneeze. <3
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Date: 2010-08-25 01:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-08-29 11:53 pm (UTC)Also maps are great and awesome and also great.