Here I am experimenting and working on improving my map drawing skills.

This is the fantasy world of Nevah. I created some geography brushes to paint the contours of the continent and islands. Made some terrain brushes of mountains, hills, and trees. And a pattern fill for the water. Generated some random names using Donjon then colored and tidied things up a bit. Overlayed a light parchment texture to give it a little more feel.

It took a few hours, and it didn't come out too terrible for one evening's work. With some refinement and practice this could be turned into a viable process to quickly generate fantasy maps. Not quite publishable I'd consider this a sketch or rough to then take to a finished polished state.

To refine it more I would probably hand outline the contours to give it more character and feel less digital. The iconography could use a lot of work.

nevah.jpg

These are the Photoshop brushes I made to "paint" the terrain and contours with:

geographybrushes.jpg