We moved the old drafting table over from the other house (had been my mother’s after she moved up here,\u00a0 then guest-house, then son’s house for a couple of years) to what is now the spare bedroom in this house.\u00a0 Only it’s not going to be a spare bedroom–it’s going to be a drawing\/painting\/graphics room.\u00a0 The old drafting table, now well over 60 years old, is pretty beat-up, so I’m using a piece of plexiglass on top of the (rapidly delaminating) original maple veneer top.\u00a0 The tilt mechanism doesn’t work anymore–my mother stabilized it with a pair of extra “legs” that fixed it at one tilt.\u00a0\u00a0 (Yes, I could maybe get a newer used one, or a new one, but this is the drafting table I remember from early childhood.\u00a0\u00a0 A “don’t touch” zone that I violated only a few times…most notably the time I used my mother’s big T-square as a hobby-horse.\u00a0 Once.\u00a0 The repercussions were convincing.)<\/p>\n
The new master map, begun for Oath of Fealty<\/em>, is now taped down to the new surface, with an undersheet and a cover sheet.\u00a0 This may be temporary–it’s been rolled and stored in a map tube for safety for the past year, so it’s got “waves.”\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I taped it down right-side-up, but if 24 hours under a weighted cover doesn’t flatten it, I’ll tape it face-down under pressure as well before starting work.<\/p>\n More of it is done than showed in Oath<\/em>, but not all that’s drawn has been inked.\u00a0 Inking is the tricky bit, as–both from the way I was taught and for Production–it has to be inked in the blackest, most permanent ink there is, and then scanned (or photographed, which is how I did the Oath map) in pure black\/white.<\/p>\n Pargun is still pretty much blank.\u00a0\u00a0 Everything that happened there in both the original Deed<\/em> and Oath<\/em> happened offstage.\u00a0 So I have to figure out where Rostvok (the capital) is, and the settlements (and one actual port) on the river.\u00a0\u00a0 The usual way I find out about “small terrain”\u00a0 is to be in the head of a POV character who’s there.\u00a0 In this instance…I haven’t been there yet.\u00a0 It’s a nuisance.\u00a0\u00a0 C.J. Cherryh said to never draw the map first.\u00a0\u00a0 Kostandan, Dzordanya, and Prealith are still blank, except for the port of Bannerlith.\u00a0 My original master map had more about them on it, but I can’t remember the details.\u00a0 (Or, as I’ve mentioned, find the original master map!)<\/p>\n Anyway, when this new master map is flattened out, I can start work on it, on a better surface (and more convenient) than the kitchen table.\u00a0\u00a0 Without worrying that a spatter of grease from something on the stove might fly that far, or that someone might trip between refrigerator and sink and mark the map.\u00a0 (I did always cover it with a towel when not actually working on it, but kitchens are busy places.)<\/p>\n And when this is completed (it doesn’t have to be completed for Kings<\/em>, but may well for the others)\u00a0 it will go down to the place in the city that can scan things even bigger than this and print them out.\u00a0\u00a0 The Kings<\/em> maps will include Lyonya, Pargun, Tsaia, and Fintha.\u00a0 For\u00a0 Arcolin’s stuff in Aarenis, you’ll have to refer to the map in Oath<\/em> (that’s to get a more useful scale, and to avoid having the bottom half of the western map unused by any of the action.)<\/p>\n While waiting for the map to relax and go flat again,\u00a0 I’ll be checking all my pens, ink supply, drawing pencils and erasers, etc.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Well, along with running back and forth to the city to take son the things he needs in the apartment and didn’t take, plus the usual (choir practice this evening, for instance; fencing practice tomorrow, etc.)<\/p>\n Dream of future for this room (which has had many ideas for its future put into it)…my own lamp table, a newer drafting table, storage for all the drafting\/drawing\/painting supplies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We moved the old drafting table over from the other house (had been my mother’s after she moved up here,\u00a0 then guest-house, then son’s house for a couple of years) to what is now the spare bedroom in this house.\u00a0 Only it’s not going to be a spare bedroom–it’s going to be a drawing\/painting\/graphics room.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109,53,5],"tags":[40,112,54,20,107],"class_list":["post-786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artwork","category-life-beyond-writing","category-the-writing-life","tag-artwork","tag-life-beyond-writing","tag-map","tag-progress-report","tag-the-writing-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=786"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":787,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786\/revisions\/787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}