Mysterious places in Sweden

[onez]

Hi fellow cartographers!
I'm sorry I haven't been very active in the guild lately, so I'll start making it up for it bu posting some of my latest works.

Back in 2016 I was commissioned to work on a pretty amazing book project called Från Döda fallet till Ales stenar – Platser med (spök)historia (From The Dead Fall to Ale’s stones – places with a (ghost)story), written by Lena Arro and published by Opal. It is an intriguing mix of fiction, folklore, horror and history, as it takes the reader into a North-to-South journey across Sweden, visiting 9 remarkable locations and their historical and supernatural legacy.

Luckily enough, I also got to create some maps for it, most notably the double-page opening full color overview of Sweden/Scandinavia with highlights on the different places explored in the text.

If you are interested in knowing more about the project, or see some of the other illustrations I made for the book, please check out this post on my website.

EDIT: The big map is ink on paper, then colored digitally. The small ones are pencil on paper.

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[Voolf]

What a gem !

I love your maps. You have such a great looking style.

Congratulation on this commission, and thank you for sharing this with us. Such an inspirational work.

[Eilathen]

Ohhh...i love the color map a lot. A very nice style with good color choices. The mountains look fabulous and you pull off those forests really well.

I hope you'll show us some fantasy-mapping of yours again...maybe in this style?!

Congrats on the commission and as said, very well done maps!

[onez]

What a gem !

I love your maps. You have such a great looking style.

Congratulation on this commission, and thank you for sharing this with us. Such an inspirational work.

Thank you Voolf!

Ohhh...i love the color map a lot. A very nice style with good color choices. The mountains look fabulous and you pull off those forests really well.

I hope you'll show us some fantasy-mapping of yours again...maybe in this style?!

Congrats on the commission and as said, very well done maps!

Thank you! I have some personal fantasy maps that I hope I'll be able to finish soon. Otherwise I am currently working mostly on real world stuff.

[MapMappingMapped]

Hey! Those are beautiful!
I especially like the first colored one - it's so eye catching that I knew I loved it before I saw it in large!
Really eager to see some more maps

[Josiah VE]

Wow! I can't express how much I love these maps. These are possibly my favorite style of map, such realize and perspective, it's great.

[ThomasR]

The black and white plans are pretty good but the color map is a little marvel !

[nopkin]

Wow! These look fabulous! Especially the colored ones. Your watercolor technique is amazing.

[MapMappingMapped]

Oh darn, they're watercolour, huh? I knew it, then I forgot or something. Now I look again, these maps are double gorgeous then xD! Watercolours, at least to me, are super hard to use.

[Neyasha]

The maps and illustrations are amazing! And the book sounds very interesting as well. Do you know if there will be a translation? Altough I speak some Norwegian, I don't think I could manage to read a book in Swedish.