Welcome to the weekly round-up, a summary of what’s happened at the Guild over the past seven days.
Challenge News
September 2018 challenge : Stairway to Heaven
Congrats to LizardInk for winning September's challenge with a map of doggy heaven titled 'Where All The Good Boys Go'. Check out the WIP thread here.
Honourable mention to runner-up aeshnidae for map 'Camelot'.
October 2018 challenge : Photography-Cartography
October's challenge has started, and this month we're using some photographs as the basis of the challenge. A collage of images has been posted (see it here). We want you to pick one or more images from this series of photos and make a map from it. More info here.
Sept/October 2018 Lite Challenge : Map a location from a Harry Potter Movie
There are only a few days remaining before the Lite Challenge ends, so if you plan to submit an entry, do it now! Check out our current entries here.
Five threads to check out
The latest work-in-progress threads, interesting discussions, new tutorials etc etc. It's all here.
- The Riverlands, by jshoer
- Eldrany World Map, by Warlin
- Bréistyn's Folly - the Sværian Age (an experiment in globe cartography), by Caenwyr
- Two threads from Texas Jake to check out: The City of Melekhir, and Mountain Village
- Altar at sunet, by ARockabillyRhino
Five Finished Maps
Check out our latest completed maps from the last week.
- Raum's Stronghold, by Voolf
- Veduta of a late medieval town, by Chlodowech
- The City-states and Banners of the Surrach, by vorropohaiah
- Die Schwester Der Fetten Jungfer, by Steffen Brand
- Fillory, by aeshnidae
Around the web
Some links for your reading/viewing pleasure.
- 'An Early 20th Century Guide to Wave Designs for Japanese Craftsmen is Now Available Online' if you want some inspirations for your seas.
- Brisbane inspires two-storey high art in conceptual 'map' on the wall at GOMA, from ABC news
- A little vid showing Deven Rue's latest map, Menagerie Coast
- Looking forward to Krita 4.2! What's coming up in Krita's latest release
- Manchester : Mapping the City. New book with some maps of Manchester, England.
- From Maps Mania, Follow the River. Follow US rivers to their source on interactive maps.
- Scotland bans maps that put the Shetland Islands in a box. Cartographer Steve Chilton says "it's stupid".
- Asia's Southern Bastion by Richard Edes Harrison (1950), via Reddit
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