My Set of Maps for a Mine/Cavern

**Necrophagist** · 12-02-2016, 09:20 AM

Hi!
Been a while since I drew my last map. My last campaign succumbed to life stuff and just now I was able to gather a group to play a 13th Age one shot.
Those are the maps I made for the session.
The last map came out pretty sloppy since I lacked the technical prowess to represent what was in my head :/
Please leave suggestions on what I could have done better. Enjoy!

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Name: 1. DesertWall.jpg
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Name: 2. TheCaves.jpg
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Name: 3. DragonDen.jpg
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Name: 4. DragonDenFinal.jpg
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**cyderak** · 12-07-2016, 09:00 AM

These maps look GREAT!! Do you have versions with a grid?

**Jacktannery** · 12-17-2016, 04:36 AM

I love the purple on these.

Depicting the lava stream is tricky, but the issue here is the inside edge of your hard black border either side of the stream. See here (link https://www.cartographersguild.com/s...ad.php?t=20917) for a way to do streams and pools of blood in a cavern map, which you could apply to your lava stream. The trick is that the inside edge of the black border fades gently into the centre of the lava, but you keep the hard exterior edge, giving the illusion that the lava is lower than the floor.