{"id":688,"date":"2013-01-05T02:50:11","date_gmt":"2013-01-05T07:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.murphsterproductions.com\/?p=688"},"modified":"2017-09-03T18:22:55","modified_gmt":"2017-09-03T22:22:55","slug":"world-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.murphsterproductions.com\/?p=688","title":{"rendered":"World Map"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since I was a pretty young lad, I have always loved maps. There&#8217;s just something about them, and in particular I really love old world maps. Old world maps are pieces of art in themselves with gorgeous ornate designs that are typically entwined with what ever area it&#8217;s showing. I&#8217;ve been reading maps, and making maps for a number of years now and even today for my job, I&#8217;m asked every now and then to create maps of places or insides of buildings for navigational or reference purposes. Although they can be fairly simple, I still get engrossed (probably a tad too much) in getting them just right, whether or not the client asked for that level of detail. Normally, this causes me to spend a great deal more time on them then anyone really would like.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I was asked to create a world map by an extremely good friend for another very good friend (friendrequestception?) which I was delighted to take on the task. This project really pushed my limits and broke several of them: spanning from beginning the drawing via pen and paper all the way through Illustrator and then into Photoshop for the final touches!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m leaning towards giving my old Vana&#8217;Diel map this treatment as well, and when I &#8216;recharge&#8217; my cartography energy, I&#8217;ll probably tackle another world as well. Probably something I&#8217;ll create out of the air not really relating to anything (well, least not that I can think of yet). If I can figure out how the heck to do Hurricane-like stuff, I might just do Azeroth also.<\/p>\n<p>Random though: I&#8217;m gonna smack around CS2 if it keeps complaining about lacking RAM &#8211; silly program, you have TONS to use!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"wp-content\/uploads\/Cartography\/KWorld.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[688]\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"wp-content\/uploads\/Cartography\/KWorld-Medium.jpg\" alt=\"KWorld\"  class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-901\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since I was a pretty young lad, I have always loved maps. There&#8217;s just something about them, and in particular I really love old world maps. Old world maps are pieces of art in themselves with gorgeous ornate designs that are typically entwined with what ever area it&#8217;s showing. I&#8217;ve been reading maps, and &#8230; <a title=\"World Map\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.murphsterproductions.com\/?p=688\" aria-label=\"Read more about World Map\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":897,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,26],"tags":[21],"class_list":["post-688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artwork-concepts","category-schematics-cartography","tag-artwork"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.murphsterproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.murphsterproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.murphsterproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.murphsterproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.murphsterproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.murphsterproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.murphsterproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.murphsterproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.murphsterproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.murphsterproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}