My Map of a Village, Memorial and a random path

[Yozogundam 0]

Heyya All, this is my first post and its regarding a few maps that I have made near the start of my game, while I am happy with them to a degree I do believe that it terms of the maps themselves there is still work to be done. I would rather start to learn and improve early on in my project to make everything else stand out in terms of how I have improved as a RPG 'mapper'. 
 
Feedback ranging from something as simple as make a house or path bigger too ideas of how to fill an area would be greatly helpful in terms of improving my skills. Thank you to anyone who helps me out or reads this. Below are the three screen shots as well as some information explaining them.

 

Path.

 

This is one of the many paths the player must take in order to get to the first village in the game after leaving the 'hub' where they start the game, it is surrounded by a small forest, and a lake as shown, the statue is there to act as somewhere where the locals would come to say pray.

 

 

Village.

 

This is the village that the player will make his way to first thing after leaving the 'hub'. I aimed this village to look clean and simple as well as provide the player with enough areas in which to explore and shop as its the first real time in the game they get to do so, not sure if making it bigger and adding more would be needed or if what I have there is enough.

 

 

Memorial.

 

This is the memorial just outside the village that is there to allow people to pay respects to the fallen, its much smaller than most other maps I have made and as a result I wanted to fill it up but at the same time believe that it should look plan and simple considering what it is? That as well as the floor may be to bright, out of the three this is the map I had the most trouble making.

 

[xoferew 261]

Hey, I think they look pretty good!  (Not that I am any expert to judge.)  Two suggestions are make the buildings more interesting shapes like you did with that orange roofed one, it will help them look more three dimensional and natural.  And your memorial looks beautiful but that center monument looks a bit like a ring-toss game with the wreath placement. 

 

I like the size of the village for a first village that the player will encounter.

[shadowblack 103]

In order:

1) Path - I see two things that feel off to me:

- The trees in the lower right corner seem a little too uniform. Leave a few empty spaces among the trees

- The flowers. There are flowers at the edge of the lake, and then there are flowers near the statue. Why are there no flowers anywhere else on the map? I'd put some more flowers around the map, and also decrease the flowers at the edge of the lake, as it seems rather unnatural for a lake to be surrounded almost entirely by flowers (unless there's a reason for that)

 

2) Village - it's a nice map, but some parts of it feel empty. No flowers, no bushes, no trees - nothing, just empty ground.

 

The memorial map is fine - nothing wrong with it I can see.

[Yozogundam 0]

Heyya Guys, 
Thank you both very much for the replies I have taken what you have both said into account and changed the three maps according to the feedback and am amazed at the difference it has made. These are the V2 updated maps.
 
Path V2

Notable changes: Addition of flowers across the ground, as well as the removal of some surrounding the lake (there was no real reason they were there), The trees in the bottom right of the map have been messed up to give them more depth and make it look more natural

 
Town V2

 

Notable changes: Taking what you both said first I went through and changed the overall shapes of many of the buildings or just added something to make them look more dynamic as well as the addition of a small balcony at the front of the Inn. After this I then went in a put in trees on some of the corners of the path as well as added brushes and flowers. The change here is massive and the map feels so much more finished thank you very much for this!

 

 

Memorial V2

 

Notable changes: Removal of ring toss game and replaced with a darker looking centre piece. Thank you for pointing it out after looking at it like that I couldn't take it seriously -.-'

 

 

Again thank you both very much I will make sure to come back to this feedback every time I make similar maps to make sure I take these criticisms into account.

[shadowblack 103]

Nice! Your maps look much better now! Good job!

[thehitgirl 0]

Looking good, great job!

[Dymdez 77]

They're OK, but I highly suggest downloading GIMP and learning how to make your own maps, they will look 10000% better and you'll have so much more control. I will happy teach ya just PM me.

 

see? It's well worth learning ... I call this "Weeping memorial" and its based off of your map above. Took about 30 min.. was a blast

 

 

Edited September 4, 2015 by Dymdez