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While discussing the Extreme Dungeon Makeovers, I noted that I have never actually posted any of my regional maps to the blog for whatever reason. I’ve posted a number of cities and towns, but never the environs around them. It’s not that I don’t draw regional maps, it is that I don’t consider my regional maps to be all that good. I need practice to make my mountains and forests look “cool” instead of like scribbles.
This regional map was drawn in my plain-paged dollar-store journal using gel pens. It is a very recent piece, drawn in the last two weeks. I like it, but I don’t love it. It needs more… something.
Hell, it needs me to take ten minutes in the Gimp and add a bunch of place names. That always spices up a fantasy map. Also, one of the downsides of mapping in a journal book while on the road, you can tell that I’m right handed. Look as the map moves more to the lower right side, it also tilts down to the left and up to the right. Classic sign of a righty free-handing.
A Regional Map - Click for Larger
Once again, as with almost all my maps, the invitation is open to bloggers and others to use it for your games, and if you do end up doing something cool with it, post it to your blog and send me a link and I’ll pimp your coolness here.
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Those look cool, but I’m having a hard time figuring out if I’m looking at rivers or roads.
I’ll make it easy on you – there are no roads on this map.
Great job as usual! Thanks for the inspiration! You’ve got me drawing and sharing D&D maps on my blog. When I started ten months, I figured I’d ramble about my gaming experience and maybe post some campaigns. I’m now 160 in and working on my map-making skills. Thanks!
FREAKING COASTLINE! That was what I was missing. I thought … “if they’re all rivers, are some of them circular?” but I’m just a Canadian dork.
I saw those straight lines out of the coasts and thought they were farmland (in the early-quebec-colonist style).
From one Canadian dork to another; there is a reason I haven’t posted any regional maps before now… I still haven’t gotten the style down to the point where everything is obviously what I want it to be.
Good looking map! At first look I was a bit confused about the rivers/coastline too but it just took a moment to adapt. You really should post some more tutorials on how you draw your stuff. OR simply some stories about your drawing. I really like it.
wow that just awesome!