I have been lurking this place since mid-summer this year, and I've finally gotten the motivation to sign up for this forum after I read Robert E Howard's essay The Hyborian Age. I had just begun writing my own essay on a world of mine, a purely fictional one. As I read the first paragraph of the essay, I realized that I really had no idea what I had in mind for the overall idea of my world. And so, I decided to draw a map.

One slight problem, though.

I don't know how to draw maps.

And so, I begin a new quest, this time to learn how to draw at least a decent map of my world, just to get the whole gist of it myself, if you understand what I mean.

Right now, all I have is paint.net and a cracked copy of Photoshop CS6 that gives me a trial prompt every time I open it.

I am at a loss. I need help.