Welcome to the weekly round-up, a summary of what’s happened at the Guild over the past seven days.
Challenge News
August 2018 Challenge : The Passage of Time
There are only a few days remaining before August's challenge ends, so finish up and submit your final entries before the deadline on the 31st. Take a look at the current entries here.
August/Sept 2018 Lite Challenge : Map a Crater
Our Lite Challenge, running till mid-September is 'Map a Crater' and entries are starting to come in. Read more about the challenge here.
Five threads to check out
The latest work-in-progress threads, interesting discussions, new tutorials etc etc. It's all here.
- The Forgotten Realms, by Meton
- Two threads from Ilanthar to check out: 'The Elemental Realm of Honimris' and the latest WIP sketch of 'Domhantyr'
- Border Outpost, by Texas Jake
- The village of Kopfarr WIP, by Boslok
- Starlings Headquarters, by David Fink Barrentine
Five Finished Maps
Check out our latest completed maps from the last week.
- The Starlings Thieves' Guild, by David Fink Ballentine
- The Lower Kingdoms, by DanielHasenbos
- Couple of reposts of recent challenge entries. Check them out if you missed them: Seasons at the Lake, by elboe, Rekhan's Workshop, by jshoer, and The Lands of Melenor, by Mimine (challenge winner)
- The Inhabited Continent of Theia (in three versions), by nwisth
- Algernon World Map, by Fagner.DC
Around the web
Some links for your reading/viewing pleasure.
- The Equal Earth Projection
- The latest point release of Gimp includes a fun 'Little Planet' feature
- Browse Harvard Map Collection's brochure for their 'Follow the Map' exhibition
- Hand-drawn map of Sydney, Australia by artist Jenni Sparks
- From National Geographic, 'See a Century of National Parks Maps From Our Archives'
- This is probably more 'infographic' than map, but it's pretty cool nonethless: 'The geologic time spiral'
- From Big Think, 'Huge color-coded map shows the world's most ancient and recent borders'
- Planet Earth view of Africa, Europe and Asia (Afro-Eurasia) with exaggerated relief (thanks to ThomasR for the link!)
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