The World Seems To Change Wherever You Go
Cartography builds on the premise that reality can be modeled in ways that communicate spatial information effectively. So if you see sets of giant paw marks and parts of the world map that seem to be morphed by the map maker don't worry. It's all part of the map making experience.
In every game that you start up or even every place that you go to, there are two fundamental questions that are typically asked. Where am I? What am I doing here? There are often other questions that go along with this, but we can forget about those for now. For now, where the hell am I, and what am I doing here?
Looking around the giant tiger see a landscape totally unfamiliar to you with no idea where to start looking, so you have to get familiar with your surroundings. There are rivers and mountains, roads and towers, beaches and boats, what appears to be words on a mountain, and beside him out of all things is an unfilled map and a gigantic pencil with an eraser. One of the good ones.
Surprisingly, being so big allowed him to be able to begin creating a near perfect representation of the world below him. It was taking him a lot of time as so many things were happening below while he focused and drew. It interested him seeing how everything flowed together with bigger raised roads connecting smaller sections of town, how it appeared there were different sections for different things, but he was a bit perturbed that he couldn't get more details of the denser parts of the area below him. After some careful but no so careful consideration, he decided the best thing to do instead of trying to ask the little dots moving around in the area for a map was to step inside of it and continue drawing the more condensed parts and erasing the parts he stepped in. Quite literally.
Of course, this also meant he had to replace the parts of the areas he already drew in. As he erased away bits and pieces of the map, he took a few steps into the new area,where eraser shavings fell into the tiny roads while he was focused on creating a relatively accurate map. The thing is, cartography can take a lot of care and time to get right, especially down to the last detail. It's another challenge to draw in the rest of the buildings and districts, and all the giant tiger wanted to do was get the general shape of the city itself, the rest of it would have to be for later.
By mid-afternoon, he had completed the general outline and interior of the area he figured out was a city. He was exhausted and needed to take a much needed cat nap. Letting out a yawn while leaning back, he fell backwards into the downtown area, crossing his legs, arms behind his head and glasses carefully placed on his chest he quickly drifted to sleep. He then thought, maybe I need to find a pillow at some point.
This artwork was created by the wonderful stonerabbit. He's an artist I commission relatively often due to a variety of reasons. For one thing, I enjoy the way he creates the environments relatively quickly and makes the areas of cities and towns and other environments look like they're real and functioning. At the same time I also like how he uses color, how bombastic the ideas can get when he goes about creating them, and is quite fun to hang out with when given the chance to.
I will admit, I feel I could have done a bit better with the story on this one. It's been a short bit since I have written anything new and there were a few hiatuses between when I first started writing the story and when I had completed it. I think that's why it feels rather disjointed instead of as a whole puzzle instead of irregularly shaped pieces. Typically, when I write my stories I try to write them in one go, otherwise it feels like it's not perfect or perhaps not good enough and it can wrack the mind in a ways. But I want to write stories that you will remember, that can work with the piece through the semblance of an idea. But the thing that matters most is that you try, and keep pushing.
Either way, expect more uploads sometime. Have a good one all
Art created by stonerabbit
Cartography is more than just scribbling on paper. You gotta observe your surroundings, travel around and make sure not to sleep on the very place you're mapping, you idiot.
Adake Feuglace belongs to dialuca01
In every game that you start up or even every place that you go to, there are two fundamental questions that are typically asked. Where am I? What am I doing here? There are often other questions that go along with this, but we can forget about those for now. For now, where the hell am I, and what am I doing here?
Looking around the giant tiger see a landscape totally unfamiliar to you with no idea where to start looking, so you have to get familiar with your surroundings. There are rivers and mountains, roads and towers, beaches and boats, what appears to be words on a mountain, and beside him out of all things is an unfilled map and a gigantic pencil with an eraser. One of the good ones.
Surprisingly, being so big allowed him to be able to begin creating a near perfect representation of the world below him. It was taking him a lot of time as so many things were happening below while he focused and drew. It interested him seeing how everything flowed together with bigger raised roads connecting smaller sections of town, how it appeared there were different sections for different things, but he was a bit perturbed that he couldn't get more details of the denser parts of the area below him. After some careful but no so careful consideration, he decided the best thing to do instead of trying to ask the little dots moving around in the area for a map was to step inside of it and continue drawing the more condensed parts and erasing the parts he stepped in. Quite literally.
Of course, this also meant he had to replace the parts of the areas he already drew in. As he erased away bits and pieces of the map, he took a few steps into the new area,where eraser shavings fell into the tiny roads while he was focused on creating a relatively accurate map. The thing is, cartography can take a lot of care and time to get right, especially down to the last detail. It's another challenge to draw in the rest of the buildings and districts, and all the giant tiger wanted to do was get the general shape of the city itself, the rest of it would have to be for later.
By mid-afternoon, he had completed the general outline and interior of the area he figured out was a city. He was exhausted and needed to take a much needed cat nap. Letting out a yawn while leaning back, he fell backwards into the downtown area, crossing his legs, arms behind his head and glasses carefully placed on his chest he quickly drifted to sleep. He then thought, maybe I need to find a pillow at some point.
This artwork was created by the wonderful stonerabbit. He's an artist I commission relatively often due to a variety of reasons. For one thing, I enjoy the way he creates the environments relatively quickly and makes the areas of cities and towns and other environments look like they're real and functioning. At the same time I also like how he uses color, how bombastic the ideas can get when he goes about creating them, and is quite fun to hang out with when given the chance to.
I will admit, I feel I could have done a bit better with the story on this one. It's been a short bit since I have written anything new and there were a few hiatuses between when I first started writing the story and when I had completed it. I think that's why it feels rather disjointed instead of as a whole puzzle instead of irregularly shaped pieces. Typically, when I write my stories I try to write them in one go, otherwise it feels like it's not perfect or perhaps not good enough and it can wrack the mind in a ways. But I want to write stories that you will remember, that can work with the piece through the semblance of an idea. But the thing that matters most is that you try, and keep pushing.
Either way, expect more uploads sometime. Have a good one all
Art created by stonerabbit
Cartography is more than just scribbling on paper. You gotta observe your surroundings, travel around and make sure not to sleep on the very place you're mapping, you idiot.
Adake Feuglace belongs to dialuca01
Category All / Macro / Micro
Species Tiger
Gender Male
Size 1125 x 1125px
Listed in Folders
I think some of the levelled skyscrapers are the best to rest on, the others are way too close to ground level
You make a good point! But the question is, are they filled with pillows?
Even super huge fellas need to take load off and shoot the breeze every now and then.
suddenly... you're infested with humans in your fur! it's an epidemic!
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