Welcome to the weekly round-up, a summary of what’s happened at the Guild over the past seven days.
Challenge News
June 2018 Challenge: Map a Frontier
Congrats to Larb for winning June's challenge with one of her signature village maps, this one titled 'Ten'. Check out the WIP thread here. Larb wins her third gold compass.
Honourable mention to MistyBeee who came in second place with 'The Cliff of Medölinn'.
July 2018 Challenge: Son of the Fantasy Random Generator
It's July, and you know what that means? Yup, it's time for everyone's favourite random generator challenge once again. Head for Donjon's web site, generate your list of places and pick one, then start mapping. Diamond explains in further detail in the intro thread.
This challenge proved hugely popular in previous years, and we've seen some wonderful maps come from it, so let's see what we can do this year!
We've got a bunch of entries started already. Take a look here.
June/July 2018 Lite Challenge : Map a trip or journey!
Only a few days remaining before the June/July Lite Challenge ends. You've got till the 14th to get your maps in. Watch out for the voting poll later in the week.
In the meantime, check out our current entries here.
Five Finished Maps
Check out our latest completed maps from the last week.
- 'Ostrom', by Wingshaw
- 'Old Abandoned Dwarven Mine - Medusa's Lair' by DungeonExpedition
- 'The airship port town of Haalthran', by J.Edward
- 'Mor Nadar - Lord of the Horde', by Caenwyr
- 'Den of Jack the Hound', by Voolf
Five threads to check out
The latest work-in-progress threads, interesting discussions, new tutorials etc etc. It's all here.
- 'A blotch on the floor of the convention center parking garage ... ' by Mapsburgh. Inspiration is everywhere!
- 'The Phaeris Empire', WIP thread, by AlfansosRevenge
- New update on Grimmsmouth, by Weery
- 'Twin River City', WIP thread, by XCali
- 'Trade City of Prithasford', WIP thread by CraftyGepetto
Around the web
Some links for your reading/viewing pleasure.
- The University of Chicago have made Volume 6 in their 'History of Cartography' series available free online. This one is titled 'Cartography in the Twentieth Century'.
- From Behance, 'The World is Business'
- From BBC Travel, 'The epic story of the map that gave America its name'
- As world cup fever continues (in some parts of the world, at least), from The Guardian: 'The Football Atlas: the illustrations putting the World Cup on the map'
- If Baseball's more your thing, from the LOC's blog: 'Baseball Stadiums and Maps: Chicago'
- 'Hand drawn map', by Warren Davison
- From Reddit, 'Ani, capital of Armenia, 10th-13th centuries AD'
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