Nice one Chashio. Certainly looks like it was fun to draw.
This was fun. Hand drawn with an old quill-type lettering pen and india ink on printer paper (8.5 x 11 inches). I may be done with it... at least I've run out of steam for the meantime and I'm horribly busy with tons of other things to do. Been working on a commission for almost three weeks now and it just felt good to take an evening off.
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Nice one Chashio. Certainly looks like it was fun to draw.
Here's another fun little map that I couldn't bring myself to put in its own thread but wanted to share for your amusement. It's pencil on note paper (4 x 5 inches-ish).
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Made my day, thanks for putting a smile on my face
You know what, I am going to turn this into my dumping-place-for-random-map-style-experiments thread, because I really don't want to start a new thread for each little scrap of paper with slightly off-kilter mapping scribbles on them. So hang on to your britches, people.
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Oops, I forgot. This one's on the back of an old business card. Sort of.
Indeed, i did the same. Better to collect stuff than having to many unfunished WIPs and Tests.
I find when I participate in monthly challenges, that's when I do most of my experiments. I really don't doodle small maps on my own as experiments (at least not in 10 years). In fact regarding hand-drawn maps, I tend to avoid letter size and smaller pieces of paper because of the lack of space to draw larger areas, and I find the pen lines too thick at that scale. I prefer hand-drawing to nothing smaller than an 18" x 24" piece of paper, and more often 24" x 36" and larger. Of course, because I have access to large format scanners (42" wide by any reasonable length), drawing on large sheets makes more sense for me.
Really, I trust my hand-drawing skills enough, and my cartography/geology/geography knowledge well enough, that I often experiment on a map intended to be a finished piece as a professional commission or for a map I intend to publish myself. I don't doodle, I generally only work on maps that I intend to be finished and used - not put in some doodle pile.
Gamer Printshop Publishing, Starfinder RPG modules and supplements, Map Products, Map Symbol Sets and Map Making Tutorial Guide
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Artstation Gallery - Maps and 3D illustrations
Nice drawings! I especially liked that first one. It has tons of texture.
Philip Riggs
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Compass Rose Charisma: How to create a unique compass rose to add distinctive personality to your map
A couple of sketchbook maps I drew this morning during breakfast. Both of them are pencil on paper that have been photographed with likely the poorest quality phone camera in use today and fiddled with in photoshop. That's actually a good way to start a map; I've done it more than once before.
The only thing that didn't originate as pencil is the red mark in the corner of the oriental-esk one, which I happily made up on the spot. It's partially based off of an anchor. I'm definitely going to do a future map based off the oriental-esk style... I like that one quite a bit. The other one is simply play, eventually I'll draw something in a style somewhere between a panorama and a Redwall map. Yep, that'll be fun too.
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Style sketches from the graph book. I don't do much with graph paper these days, so figured I'd put it to experimental use.
pic #1: pen and single-color wash (inktense pencils applied with brush) And, yes, I'm aware of the cruddy labeling.
pic #2: color wash
pic #3: pen and color wash
pic #4: pencil, pen, color wash. Random fragments that eventually ran into each other.
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