Hi everyone. Any comments are always appreciated. I rarely draw and have only completed a small handful of maps. I love this forum because it provides both fresh eyes and great nuggets of wisdom.


So work has been brutally slow the last couple of weeks, and as I was sitting at my desk I found myself idly world-building for a new D&D campaign. Naturally, world building and map making goes hand in hand, so the margins of my notepad have been slowly filling up with coastlines. With an evening off I finally sat myself down to draw this bad boy.

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The map is largely dictated by my ideas for a good D&D playing experience. There are roughly four areas:
1) The North West continent is supposed to be glacier covered fjords, ungodly-high mountains, and boreal forests.
2) The South Eastern continent has a monsoon-swept jungle on its eastern coast, a semi-arid interior, and woodlands on its western and southern coasts.
3) There's a small continent in the North East that has a west coast with numerous jagged rocks like fangs, because hey, fantasy trumps geology, and you gotta give dragons somewhere cool to roost.
4) There's, like, two random caldera-rim island chains in the south, because in D&D you always need somewhere exotic to crash where there's the possibility of pirates or cannibals.

Over the coming days (or possibly never, who knows with me) I'm planning to add in forest linework. I also want to create a set of small isometric city and town icons that I can swap around or change the colors of to populate the map. After that will come the bulk shading, followed by the part I almost never finish, the coloring.