Hey, I discovered this forum a little while ago and I've been looking around, and getting a lot of inspiration from everyone's maps! And, of course, everyone's positive and friendly attitude. It seems like a really great community and I look forward to taking part.

I actually drew a map just yesterday for fun to celebrate joining. I've liked to draw maps like this for fun (and for RPGs I played with my friends) since I was really little, but I've never done anything digitally. I'm interested in looking into that primarily in order to combine smaller maps into larger ones, and make different layers for them. Anyway, I love all of the emergent stories that come from drawing a map and thinking about how its different parts interact (different biomes, inhabitants, resources, infrastructure...), and I also love how creative mapmaking lets you play with positive and negative space and all kinds of different shading.

Lately I've just been drawing little maps on index cards for whatever reason. Something about it is really fun to me.

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Nice to meet you all