/ic/ what do yall think of my fantasy map? Drawing land masses has been easy, I suppose it would be easy for anyone, filling it in however has been a weaklink of mine, so I came up with this dot method for grasslands, forests, and so on.
>>7735235I think it looks great.
>>7735236Thank you. I need to lock in and start drawing maps more often, I tend to get into things really hard for a couple weeks and then walk away for months, so I need to over come this.
>>7735239If you don't mind my asking, why maps?
>>7735246I think it started with The Hobbit, the books have the map of middle earth and I would just look at it alot so I decided to start drawing my own maps. I mainly focus of landmasses, ive even studied about how they form so my mountains and such are some what realistic. I have also wanted to write my own fantasy epic, but I just have issues committing to it, plus im not an avid reader, so kinda like wanting to make movies without hardly watching them. Maps are something I can draw, I cant really draw anything else.
>>7735250I see. I read The Hobbit in school, and then re-read it with my son, so I appreciate the appeal of these kinds of maps. I know a lot of things are digitally automated these days, but I'm sure some other people would love to have a hand-drawn map like that to accompany their novel, game, etc.
>>7735259I dont really plan on selling, but do you think DND players woukd find value in my maps?
>>7735235add ripples around edge of land masses. put a compass in corner. mountains arent defined enough. look like little bumps. arent consistent in your use of the triangles. some are rounded. some touch, some have spaces. be more consistent in your designs. same with dots. you just spatter them. theres no consistency to the pattern or spaces. rivers come from mountains and larger pools of water. they travel to the ocean. you have one in bottom left of island that comes from nothing. should be flat lands since you dont have mountain symbols. its impossible river that doesnt pool into lake so cant be going to a low land area in center of island. japan like island next to it has a river that cuts island in half somehow. goes by mountains by doesnt pool at base of mountains or have a river feeding it from mountain range. makes no sense.
>>7735265Absolutely, yeah.
>>7735269Springs allows for rivers to form without the need of snow melt from mountains, so those are spring fed tributaries that flow into rivers. The dots lighter green is grass lands, darker green is forests, tan desert, so there is a pattern to it. Yeah my mountains basically anything other than landmasses is just my weakness, but the range is gray dots. Ill work on my mountains and river flows (lakes and such) to make them make better sense, thank you >>7735271Good to know, maybe if I get better I can go down that path one day.
>>7735269Here I threw this together, I want to make this dot style work, any better? You like the mountains touching?
