Greater Sept

[Zenka]

Sept is the lands where my D&D campaigns take place. I had never drawn the land in full before and only roughly. At one point I had enough of my crappy charts and decided to spend the time necessary to do one proper.
I lot of inspiration from various postings here. So I thought it would be nice to add the result.
A lot of the style came from the tutorials over at Fantastic Maps. Doing things 1 bit has been my thing though. (1 bit as in: no gray tones, just solid lines)

The coastlines, roads, icons and border was Illustrator work, the rest is drawn with a tablet in Photoshop.
The illustrative dragons are redrawn from the D&D 3.5 books. (I lack the creativity to design my own)



Because it was to be a D&D prop I had to think about how to bring it into the real world. Since the effort was already taken, I took an extra step and printed it on cloth and stitched (by hand *cry*) it onto leather.
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Excuses for the noise photo's. But you get the impression.

Needless to say: the party members were pleasantly surprised.