Greetings!
If I had known there was a site like this where cartographers could get together, I would have been here many years ago. My name is Ian, 30 years of age, residing in beautiful western Pennsylvania, USA.
I've been obsessed with Dungeons & Dragons since I was about 12, and since then, I have found nothing more fascinating than fabricating your own world, both in drawing maps and building cultures & civilizations. Cartography has been something that, being the artistically inclined person I am, has been a personal favorite since I was about 20. Working in a call center in Aurora, CO at the time, I widdled away at drawing maps as I helped clients with this problem or that, diligent in finding different methods to which I could improve my style, and bring a crisper, cleaner look to what I was creating. There is truly something special about bringing a world to life through subtle nuances, seeing that major landmark or city bring the landscape around it to life as you scrawl it into the paper, and it is something I will enjoy doing for the rest of my life.
I'm so glad that I can bring my artwork to a place where it will be appreciated, and further more glad to be in a place where I can admire other's work. I suppose a thank you is in order for the establishment I am currently contributing to, so THANK YOU! I'm absolutely tickled to be here.
With that I give you my current work. A skeleton sketch of the island of Mintarn, a sacred island of the Fey in their often perilous, otherworldly realm. This is one that I plan on elaborating on very much so, as it will be a place where my players in my Pathfinder group are going, albeit unwittingly.
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The idea behind it is that it is cursed, the house symbol in the Four Points mountains on the map its self being the culprit. Simply named "House", it is a manor that is the product of countless misfortunes, having changed hands & shape many times over the course of the some 1300 years since the humans settled their capital of Praxis, the place where it looms, there on Horner Hill. It acts as a portal between the land of Fey, and the material plane. Having it's own sentience, it glees at the chance to trap those brave enough to enter through it's doors on the strange island of Mintarn, where it also resides, driving them, and the Fey of the island, to utter madness.
Should be fun to roll out.
Until we meet again, hail and well met. -IR
Hi Ian, and welcome to the Guild. I'm glad you found us, and kudos for adding a map to your first post (I'd rep you, but apparently I've given out too much already today!)
Feel free to start a thread in one of the WIP folders, or in Finished Maps if you're completely done. Not everyone check in on the New Member Intros thread, so more people will see it in those other areas.
Looking forward to seeing more of your work.
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Very nice map Ian. Welcome!
Thank you both, it's truly an honor.
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