8 City Maps by Black Hawk Cartography

[Josiah VE]

Hey everyone,

It's been a little bit since I've posted but I'm currently working on a series of 8 city maps of capital cities of an absolutely enormous world map for a DnD campaign I completed awhile ago. I posted a WIP of one of the cities a little while back.

Because 8 cities is rather a lot of cities to make and cities can be extremely time consuming I came up with a technique for the buildings that gives an impression of relatively detailed buildings but is actually very quick to make. I make use of a modified version of Torstan's (Fantastic Maps) dynamic building brushes. Feel free to ask me about the technique if you're interested in more details, it's actually really quite simple.
It allows me to make the cities quite quickly especially now that I am getting a hang of the style.
The maps didn't have to be too detailed so I didn't want to waste a lot of time drawing individual buildings but I also didn't want to make it as simple as just city blocks.

Here are three of the city maps so far. Text and labels will be coming after.

Let me know what you think!
I'll use this thread to provide occasional updates and new maps.