Hi All,

I finally (mostly) finished my first map for the Seven Cities sub-continent from the Malazan Series from Steven Erikson. I had been trying to develop my mapping skills for maybe three years, but I finally found a style and process that works for me.

Here is what I started with 3 years ago:
seven-cities-drawing.jpg

Since then, I've been trying out tutorials from Fantasticmaps.com and here on the Cartographer's guild. I think the biggest breakthrough was to get an iPad to use on my daily subway commutes. This allowed me to spend concentrated time drawing the framework and filling in mountains and forests. I used Affinity Photo on the iPad and on my Macbook. I think because I used the iPad I felt that it couldn't be poster size, so I rendered in around letter/A4 size. I hope to redraw later so that it can be printed poster size.

Here is the results:
seven-cities-joshuab-butler.jpg

So, I'm posting this as a final maps because this stage is done. And I want to work on an Empire of Lether maps from the Malazan series. But in the future, I want to add more definition for water and a whole lot of other things.

Thanks for looking,
Josh