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A Week of Mapping Tips – City Icons, Mountains and Aged Paper
Last year I started a series of quick mapping tips, meant to be read over lunch, that would cover a series of different questions. These are posted daily to my Google+ and Facebook pages. Rather than...
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City Mapping Made Easy
An example map using the city style - map drawn by Ralf Schemmann Today Profantasy released my new fantasy city map style for Campaign Cartographer as their March Annual style. You can check out the...
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City Design Walkthrough
This isn’t strictly a tutorial, but rather a step by step for a recent city map. I’ve been doing some city design recently for Rhune: Dawn of Twilight, and got the okay from Jaye Sonia to post some...
View ArticleLands of Ice and Fire Video from Random House
I ran across this video from Random House the other day. It’s the best preview I’ve seen out there of the maps I illustrated of the world of Game of Thrones. Also, everything should be narrated by this...
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Drawing Buildings with Dynamic Brushes
Earlier in the week I posted a tutorial on how to draw buildings with the pen tool. But sometimes drawing each building just takes too long. For whole cities, you probably want a quick way to lay in...
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The Free City of Braavos
Braavos, © George RR Martin, used with permission Braavos is the second of the two cities to get a full map work up in the Lands of Ice and Fire (the other, of course, being King’s Landing). It’s also...
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New Map Pack – The Iconic Town
The town that started as a very rough sketch has now been turned into a full blown map pack, and is for sale on RPGNow and Paizo. Here’s the rough sketch that started it all: Rough sketch of the town...
View ArticleHighlighting Featured Buildings – Shape, Detail and Contrast
Cities and buildings come up a lot in questions. I’ll put together a software specific tutorial on buildings, but today I’m just going to go through my philosophy when illustrating a featured building...
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Parsantium – City at the Crossroads
City maps are complex beasts. There’s a balance to be found between detail and time. The ideal is to be able to imply all the detail of a city, without getting lost drawing every single roof tile....
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D&D Dungeon Maps from Game Night at Tor.com
One of the wonderful side effects of living in New York is the chance to run into great people from Tor.com. I’m now part of a semi-regular D&D game, and I draw the party dungeon maps. This all...
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