Welcome to the weekly round-up, a summary of what’s happened at the Guild over the past seven days.
Cartographers' Choice
Congrats to MistyBeee on winning a Cartographers' Choice award for her epic map 'The City of Kingel'. If you haven't had a proper look at this map yet, go do it now! See it here.
Challenge News
June 2018 Challenge: Map a Frontier
There are only a few days remaining before this challenge ends on the 30th, so finish up and submit your maps before the deadline. You can see the current entries here.
June / July '18 Lite Challenge: Map a Trip or Journey!
There's still plenty of time to enter the Lite Challenge, running till 14th July. Have a read through the challenge criteria in the intro thread, and check out the current entries here. There's a silver compass to be won!Five threads to check out
The latest work-in-progress threads, interesting discussions, new tutorials etc etc. It's all here.
- J.Edward's been experimenting with Fractal Terrains
- Kacey posted an update on map 'Ehlwren'
- 'Cape City' WIP, by fol2dol
- Wingshaw posted a helpful comment on the layout of fantasy cities, well worth a read through.
- 'Midantine of the Sehterre Basin', by jplet
Five finished maps
Check out our latest completed maps from the last week.
- 'Khroman Islands Archipelago', by Ilanthar
- 'The South of Erthor', by MapMappingMapped
- 'Airship Merlin', by J.Edward
- 'Burninating the Sword Coast', by whipstache
- 'The World of Grace and Fury', by LizardInk
Around the web
Some links for your reading/viewing pleasure.
- 'Allegorical Maps of Love, Courtship, and Matrimony' from The Public Domain Review
- 'Building the world', from Cartoner's blogspot. A Lego globe!
- On Twitter, Gene Reddick posted some 'Mixed Reality' vids using Mike Schley's maps. 'Skullport', 'Frost Giant Rift', and 'Castle Ravenloft'. It's early days, but is this the future of game maps?
- For footie fans, 'The World Cup in 33 Maps'.
- World Airports in a voronoi diagram.
- From The Guardian, 'Shakespeare, strikes and soapy pigs: a hand-drawn history of London – in pictures'
- If you fancy something a little different to read, NY Times reviews 'The Map of Salt and Stars'.
- From ProFantasy's blog, 'Mapping Narratives by Mike Schley'
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