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How To Draw Fantasy Art And Rpg Maps Review

Cover for How to Draw Fantasy Art and RPG Maps

So this is a chip 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 cartoon.  This isn't false modesty.  I suck at cartoon.  You should've seen my awesome map of Hugh's castle. OMG.  ::shudder::

Just and then Amazon kept helpfully suggesting this book every time I would log on.  Hey, do y'all think you looked at this book?  Would you similar to buy this book?  What near more books on map making?

I finally gave upwardly and bought information technology.  Because why non, right?

In my experience art books get similar this:

So I didn't accept high hopes.

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

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

Describe some squiggles effectually your blob.  Congratulations, here is an ocean.

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

Drawing of a map
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Then I messed with information technology 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 go better results on a tablet.  I am messy and the constant erasing resulted in some nighttime areas on the mountain range.  I really would like to figure out if I can depict this on my iPad somehow.

Too, next time I will get out naming of towns and boondocks icons until the Photoshop stage. I am clearly not precise enough to non screw this up.

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

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Source: https://ilona-andrews.com/2018/review-of-how-to-draw-fantasy-art-and-rpg-maps/

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