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So this is a bit of an unusual book review.  I was browsing Amazon and saw this book, HOW TO DRAW FANTASY ART AND RPG MAPS by Jared Blando.  I always wanted to draw maps, except I suck at drawing.  This isn't false modesty.  I suck at drawing.  You should've seen my awesome map of Hugh's castle. OMG.  ::shudder::

But then Amazon kept helpfully suggesting this book every time I would log on.  Hey, do you remember you looked at this book?  Would you like to buy this book?  What about more books on map making?

I finally gave up and bought it.  Because why not, right?

In my experience art books go like this:

So I didn't have high hopes.

I was wrong.  Jared starts with a blank page and gives very simple instructions. Draw a blob. Anybody can draw a blob, right? Refine your blob with some wiggly outlines.  Refine a bit more.  Oh look, you got a continent.

Draw a triangle.  Draw more triangles.  Draw some lines on the triangles.  You got a mountain range.

Draw some squiggles around your blob.  Congratulations, here is an ocean.

So behold, after much erasing and pencil sharpening and more erasing, my first attempt at a clumsy map.  I took a picture with my phone.

Drawing of a map
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Then I messed with it in Photoshop.  I used some free stock images from Pixabay for backgrounds.

Map 1

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Things I've learned: I think I might get better results on a tablet.  I am messy and the constant erasing resulted in some dark areas on the mountain range.  I really would like to figure out if I can draw this on my iPad somehow.

Also, next time I will leave naming of towns and town icons until the Photoshop stage. I am clearly not precise enough to not screw this up.

Other than that, I had a ton of fun.  So if you are in the market for a fantasy map how-to book, this one is pretty awesome.

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