Hand Drawn Swamp encounter map

[Gamerprinter]

I haven't posted in a while, as I've doing lots of commission work for Stormbunny Studios and E.N. Publishing, as well as working on my own writing projects. I decided to create a very detailed hand-drawn map of a swamp - I've been thinking about a swamp map for a long time, but all the detailed plants (especially mangroves) I've found daunting. So I decided to take the plunge and get this thing knocked out. I essentially free hand-drawn about 3 to 4 objects per letter sized paper, then scanned that, imported to Xara Designer Pro 9, applied colors mixes, bevels, shadows and transparency and placed all below the drawn linework. Once I made about 30 objects, I decided that was enough to go with. Separately I drew the islands and pond scum as a different drawing, scanned that added beveled colored shapes for the land and scum - placed at the base of the map. Added a transparent brown layer to serve as water's surface so I could place some logs beneath the water surface, as well as the lower half of two crocodiles. Exported to JPG, here ya go!

I added a JPG that includes all the hand-drawn map objects I created first.

Enjoy!

GP

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[Abu Lafia]

This is indeed a very enjoyable map. It looks very "lively" and the water-surface effect is really cool (scary ^^)

[Chick]

Very awesome!

Are these free to use, or could you post the licensing?

[arsheesh]

Those are some mighty fine hand drawn elements GP, thanks for sharing!

Cheers,
-Arsheesh

[Gamerprinter]

Thanks, guys. While I might include this as content for my hand-drawn map tutorial guide, it won't otherwise be published, so you are free to use it for your personal games - call it CC licensed. Truthfully, if I made about 20 more objects - this could total 50 objects and then I could sell it as a set on DTRPG. Still you're free to use whatever I post. (I haven't posted lately because the last several months I've been doing endless commission maps, which I cannot post at all, since they are not published yet.)

[lostatsea]

Very Nicely done. Quite interesting 1

[Ilanthar]

Very fine work GP! I love the bed and most of the plants.

[Meshon]

Yup, cool map. I can hear a dragonfly buzzing, where is she hiding?

PS. Forgot to say, the addition of the hut is perfect.