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Caves, Dungeon, Dungeons & Dragons, Fantasy, Labyrinth Lord, Maps, Neoclassical Geek Revival, NGR, OSR, Pirate, Pirates, RPG, Video
So I finally started messing around with my setup for recording again and put this video together. I was inspired by a work in progress shot by @dmquill, and wanted to try out double-lining the walls of a map while also using my crosshatching.
Because it was a test of a new style, I really rushed through this map and drew the whole thing in 40 minutes. The quality isn’t great and I might redraw it completely at some point in the future. I just really wanted to see how the style would work out for me, and it unfortunately looked better in my head than on paper.
But I promised myself that even when I don’t like a map, I’ll post it. So here we have a quick and rough version of Bela’s Cove.
Bela’s Cove
This little pirate cove is based on one from a game of NeoClassical Geek Revival I was playing in with Zzarchov as the GM. Our new pirate allies knew of a place where other pirates often hid their loot, and they recommended that we could sneak in, grab what we could and then get out as long as there wasn’t a pirate galleon anchored nearby.
And indeed, the cove was mostly abandoned… because a vampire traveling from Romania by boat had been waylayed by pirates on the high seas and now found himself here, feeding off a the few pirates left here as guards and the coffle of slaves they had stashed here as part of their treasure.
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Showing again that even a map you don’t like is 100 times better than what I can do 😉
Thanks for putting this up, and also thanks for the info about how the time. I always wondered if I am slow or not. Looks like I am, but not as slow as I thought.
Do you pre-sketch these before you draw “the real thing”? I have only recently started this and am using a pencil, so I quite often erase things and redraw them, which you didn´t need to.
I generally don’t pre-sketch anything and go straight to ink like I did with this one.
However, I did have the advantage that this is a map of an area we explored during an adventure I had played in as a player quite recently, so I had a mental image of what it looked like going into it.
These days about 80% of my work is straight to ink. Until 2014, the percentage was more like 99%. The trick is to just adapt to any “mistakes” made along the way and treat them as mistakes made by the dungeon architect instead of by the cartographer.
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