Welcome to the weekly round-up, a summary of all that’s been happening at the Guild over the past seven days.
Challenge News
Feb / March 2018 Lite Challenge - Map my world!
The Lite Challenge ends Wednesday night, 14th March, so finish up your entries and get them posted. We’ve got some amazing maps this month. Take a look here.
March 2018 Challenge - Map a Feud
March’s regular challenge, running till the end of the month, is ‘Map a Feud’. If you’d like to map anything from Romeo and Juliet’s doomed love, to a family fighting over an inheritance, now’s your chance. There’s more info in the Intro thread.
Mapping Challenge Suggestions
We have a new mapping challenge suggestion from Greason Wolfe: 'A Blast From the Past'. Greason writes...
"Recently I was going through some old hard drives to see if there was anything on them that I wanted to save before reformatting them for storage space and came across an old base map or two from challenges way back when I first started being active here and it got me to thinking/wondering if newer members (and older members for that matter) would be interested in revisiting old challenges. Not so much redoing a random map from a previous challenge, but a specific challenge..."
If you like the idea, leave a comment in the thread.
Atlas Awards
By the time this post is published, voting will have ended for the Atlas Awards, and Diamond will be announcing our winners very soon. Watch this space!
Five Threads to check out
The latest work-in-progress threads, interesting discussions, new tutorials etc etc. It's all here.
- Kacey has started a thread for her 'Practice sketches, experiments and not so mapy things'.
- City map of Caragon by Neyasha - 'I did this map more than 10 years ago with quill pen and ink and it took me ages...'
- Dark Alley battlemap, by Chronist - 'The Battlemap shows a Backyard Alley of Port Grim.'
- Planetary Base by Francissimo - 'After a while building space bases i realised i've never tried to map an outer planet outpost, and that's the begining of this little project...'
- Wyrmling's Lair by aeshnidae - The dwarven city of Kuglutuk is built in old dwarven mines. The dwarves have never stopped mining and the city expands ever deeper as the years pass. But now something stirs in the mines, beyond the underground lake that the dwarves have yet to cross...
Five Finished Maps
Check out our latest completed maps from the last week.
- Wired's been busy recently, with three maps threads this week: 'Splintered Worlds - North America', 'Dusktown', and 'The Widow's Tear'.
- ThomasR also posted three new threads: 'The World of VAYU', 'Maps for a pair of Norse saga novels', and a little tribute to fellow Guild member Meshon.
- Onez posted several pics from a book project about 'Mysterious places in Sweden'
- 'Map of Lincapeia' by FrancescaBaerald, made for a DnD Module by Nicolas Nunez Torres
- 'Map of Southern Granadure' by Jared Blando/TheRedEpic, a B/W commission for Frank Morin's "The Petralist" book series
- Bonus: 'The Thirteenth Hour - World Map' by Edzard, 'The only map I have ever worked on. Almost 20 years of progression'
Around the web
Some links for your reading/viewing pleasure...
If you're in the vicinity of Tampa Bay, be sure to check out the new Touchton Map Library.
Atlas Obscura claims 'The definitive map of the world’s extraordinary sights', all 13,262 of them! What's in your area?
From History Today, 'The landmarks of Victorian London, painted onto a fashionable leather glove.'
It was International Women's Day last week. A couple of sites did features on prominent female cartographers.
- From Future Maps, 'The Women Who Shaped The World'
- From National Geographic, 'How One Brilliant Woman Mapped the Ocean Floor’s Secrets'
- From LOC, Anna Beek and the War of the Spanish Succession.
If you've considered ditching Illustrator for Affinity Designer, EnvatoTuts has created a post on the pros and cons.
A global map of wind, weather, and ocean conditions.
From Worlds Revealed LOC blog, 'Extremities of the Earth: The Highest Point From Sea Level'.
Some pretty maps, just because!
- Via r/oldmaps, Physical map of North America
- From Mapping London, unusual map of the Landmarks of London
- From Reddit, Isometric map of population density in the City of Toronto from 1914
- From LOC, pretty pictorial map by Paul Sample: 'America, its soil'
- The portrait maps of Ed Fairburn.
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