This was a fairly quick project for a friend's D&D game. They were looking for a hand-drawn style map of the Sword Coast region of Faerun around Phandalin for a playthrough of Lost Mines of Phandelver combined with the longer Tyranny of Dragons campaign with a few specific additions.

This is the first regional map I've drawn in over a decade, and I experimented with a few different things. It was also just prior to my joining the Guild a few weeks ago, so there are some details that I would do differently if I were to draw it again (I'd like to try a different style for my mountains and forests). But it was a useful exercise and showed me how fast I could complete a map (less than four hours) if I set my mind to it.

The map was drawn in pencil, with some details inked in Micron pen. Editing and image clean up after scanning was completed in the GIMP. I'll follow-up with a post on this thread of the ultimate final product, with the map printed on a parchment-style paper as a handout by my friend.

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