Hello everyone, my name's Tim. I've always drawn pretty regularly but have only recently returned to drawing fantasy maps. A friend recently asked me to colour one of his D&D maps, while researching I found this forum. After a little explore I realised I actually lurked around here ages ago (like maybe 10 years ago) when I took a punt at writing a fantasy a novel and drew a few maps for that.

I primarily work in traditional media, I start with pencil, then fine liners, copics to fill in the values and then finish my maps with coloured pencil. One thing I need to work on is contrast - my work tends to look a little washed out as I'm not too confident with lighting. I have a Samsung tablet that I draw on occasionally but its processing power is pretty weak so couldn't handle a serious map. A while after Covid hit I lost my job and have returned to uni, I'm hoping to snap up some commission work drawing maps for people. Looking at the talent here I have a lot of work to do!

I started sketching out some ideas for the Aug/Sep Lite challenge - great topic! - then realised I should probably introduce myself! I look forward to chatting with you all and seeing more of your amazing work.

Cheers,
Tim