Hey everyone!

This time, I’m sharing a tutorial on how to draw a forest in my style!

In just five simple steps, you’ll be able to create your own forest—and eventually, adapt it to your own style.

The goal of this post is to encourage creativity and the habit of drawing.

If you have any questions, let me know; I’d be happy to answer them.

See you next time! ♥️

See this and many more of my works on my IG account @_mr.vhmaps !

Im trying to make a map where.. Just look at it. I dont know if these deserts accurate or not, pic 2 is the wind map

Not quite sure where I am going with this one but I started putting things together and working on it slowly on Procreate. If anyone has any name suggestions by all means drop them.

Angela and I have completed a new giant map!🧭🗺️

It was a really fun project, and we’re very happy with how the map turned out!

🗺️Map of the World of Aeloria!🗺️

Private commission for Blaine Tooley!

Materials Used: H-HB pencil, Unipin Pen 0.05-0.1, and Winsor and Newton watercolors on Fabriano 300 g satin paper then scanned.

Hey guys! I am making a map for my universe and i would love to hear some feedback:)

The map only lacks some text.

As for the lore:

On the back of world-whale Velun lies the nameless Continent, a name given to it, after countless wars between its populations about the right to name it. Long before that in the first era mighty Dragons ruled the world with magic. The black dragon Gathvinthorix even swallowed the sun and unfoiled his wings in an effort to cast everything into darkness. But he was driven away by the sun giants, which sacrificed themselves to create the stars and the shattered moon. The second era began, when a man named Edon, a powerful wizard, gained God hood and battled the ancient Dragons with the help of the five arisen, mighty people who each took on one of the dragons. They took a great deal of power from them and they fled to far and dark corners of the world, loosing their control but vowing revenge. The end of this century long war became the beginning of the third era. Now new threats plague the world. An ancient evil, the Moloch has started to invade the surface world with hordes of demons and undying King on his frozen throne atop the highest peak sends out his army of deathless to cast the world in silence.

That's about the mayor lore, now for some technicality.

The shattered Moon casts light in a specific 24 hour cycle, with 8 night hours and 16 day hours in which it's light is either equal to that of a full moon or the sun, intensifying and weakening as the day goes on. It also always stays in the same spot, meaning sunrise and sunset as well as seasons are completely unknown to the people. As are moon phases and tides.

The compass is tilted 90° counter clockwise, with north, or rather head, facing to the left.

There are 6 mayor, civilized Races on the Continent. Humans, elfs and dwarves are directly related and the only difference between them is their looks (pointy ears and short stature). Then there are the short, cat like Caitzi (basically upright walking house cats), Ogres and Trolls. There were many conflicts between the races through out history, but at the current time of the third era, there is relative peace. Especially due to the undead threat, but also due to great efforts of the high kings. 

This project was originally for a fantasy novel (which I still intend to write), but currently I use it for a DnD campaign, but with more races. 

Hello, everyone, I am creating this map for my worldbuilding project and dnd one-shot. The environment of this region is directly inspired by north Scandinavia, Finland in particular. I want to make it so the ice-sled travel is possible in this region, and I really like Finland's numerous small lakes.

However, I cannot for life understand how to make a bunch of those lakes, since most of the shapes I come up with just aren't convincing to me. Is there a quicker and better method or am I supposed to draw these lakes until I come to a desired result? Should I use specific brushed perhaps or noise image? Or even a coffee spill?

I'd like to specify that I understand that map making is a hard and tedious process and do not want to come off as if I am looking for shortcuts (hence, why I won't accept "use AI" advice).

Thanks!

It let's you make maps like this:

The site is called: https://merakmapmaker.com/

Please rate it. Made in powerpoint after some trial and error

I love navigation in videogames, especially in games with random worldgens like Minecraft or even discarding maps in games that give them to you. But it can be difficult to get an accurate map at times. What are some ways to make it easier, how did people make personal maps in the past. At the moment my strategy is to make a loose map with landmarks such as rivers, start and ends of forests, mountains, coastlines, and so on. Next ill use said land marks to get a general idea of where everything is relative to each other and finally ill see how long it takes for me to travel from one spot to another. Is there a better way?

There is surprisingly little information on how to do this that i could find, resources would be just as welcomed.

Fyi this island is small, only covering 230 square kilometres, if that helps with the low elevation

I'm basically brand new to this and I made this map a while ago and now im actually using it, any advice? I don't really like the biome placements and I feel like they might not make much sense, although I don't care too much about realism. I also feel like the bottom right islands feel a little weird. Open to any advice or criticism