Obligatory New Kid Post

[Scyld]

Hey everyone!
For the past while I've been low-key lurking, trying to decide whether I should bite the bullet and make an account on here. I guess you can tell what I ultimately chose!
I'm a lifelong fantasy and mythology nerd, calligraphy and typography dork, linguist, and occasional visual artist. Yet, somehow, I'd never thought to pick up cartography until a while ago, as a chance to make some cool props for a D&D game that I'm DMing.

I just recently finished my first map, a pen-and-ink take on the treasure map included in the Lost Mines of Phandelver campaign.
sword coast map small.png

I took some, shall we say, geographical liberties compared to the published map, but I think they're all justifiable in their own ways. Additionally, because it was only really intended to be seen by the four people I DM for, I distressed the original before I had ever thought to digitize it. As a result, it's a bit too wrinkly to get a perfect scan. Oh well. Live and learn.

Anyway, I'm hoping that this forum will be an opportunity to learn from a community of really amazing, talented people!

~Scyld

[Creativetides]

It’s beautiful for a for a first post I love it and I can’t wait to see future projects from you. I get a Tolkien vibe from it I had always loved Tolkien and his writings I spent much time looking at his maps inside the novels first couple pages. You have your first rep,

[Naen]

You obviously have great drawing and calligraphy skills that will allow you to do a lot of nice cartography. This is an enjoyable map — I like your mixed forests.

[Elterio Delgard]

Ooooohhh!! So beautiful! :O Actually I really admire your mountains and coastline.
Keep up the good work! Do you handraw or tabletdraw?

[Scyld]

Thanks everyone for the warm welcome and support! There's definitely a strong Tolkien influence, especially with the lettering and the forests. I've always been in awe of his works, which I'm sure I share with a lot of people here.

Elterio, this was all hand drawn with Micron pens and aged with coffee. I do also have and use a tablet, mostly for colouring, as I've never found a satisfactory way of getting digital lineart to look real and lively enough.

[Rikkin018]

Impressive

[Abbajan]

I'm impressed
It's really looking wonderful - I wouldn't be able to do that digitally and you did it by hand *thumbs up*