This started as a joke, and turned into a map.

My daughter's friend John photobombed a picture. It was funny, and I was playing around with Adobe Capture at the time. I converted the picture of his face into a a black and white hex grid, and got the brilliant idea that it looked like a map. Then made that observation out loud. So now I'm making a map.

In order to get this done relatively fast I bought a set of map brushes. I work in Photoshop.

I sketched out the landforms from the original hex grid, placed broad geographical areas on where I thought mountains would look good (i.e., the bridge of the nose, otherwise empty areas, etc.) then placed deserts and forests around that. I have no idea what the scale is, but it ranges from tropical islands in the south to snowy forests in the north.

I didn't want it to be "precise" but I do want it to be usable as a "hex crawl" type map. So for coloration I'm mostly using broad, chalk brushes and overlaid the grid on that. I haven't gotten to rivers, trails or many towns or cities.

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