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  • Weekly Round-up - 27th August, 2018

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  • Weekly Round-up - 27th August, 2018

    Published on 08-27-2018 03:15 AM
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    The Lower Kingdoms,
    by DanielHasenbos




    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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