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Reddit mentions of How to Draw Fantasy Art and RPG Maps: Step by Step Cartography for Gamers and Fans
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| Release date | August 2015 |
How to maps!
https://inkarnate.com This is the website I used to make most of the map. I actually made 4 maps and blended them together in photoshop, then I added the roads, text, etc.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BzS5fqP5rugETE9aX0dCY0Z2Y1E
Here you can find some map-making resources. Things like photoshop brushes, fonts, textures, and pdfs explaining different techniques! There's a nice folder of 'how to draw coasts' that's really helpful. And if you're super into map making, I recommend this book:
https://smile.amazon.com/How-Draw-Fantasy-Art-Maps-ebook/dp/B013KZ269Y/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1499372509&sr=8-4&
This guy actually did the maps for the Horde of the Dragon Queen 5th edition adventure. He's also super nice. I met him at Gencon last year! I highly recommend his book if you're just getting into drawing your campaign maps. It also covers city maps, heraldry, etc.
A few I haven't read, but have heard good things about here and elsewhere:
I bought a book from Amazon, which helped me up my game a bit.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B013KZ269Y/ref=oh_aui_d_detailpage_o00_?ie=UTF8&psc=1
I use Photoshop on my Dell Latitude 12-7275 and an active stylus. I'm still working on my test maps, which may become my real maps. The ability to draw layers is critical to me.
I've played with paint.net as well, but it doesn't seem to accept the stylus input nearly as well as Photoshop CS. The Gimp has similar issues, sadly.
My ultimate idea is to be able to crop out parts of the map to zoom them in for more detail. That way I can simply have a nested stack of maps... Such as 1 continent, 4 regions, 16 sub regions, then zoomed in to areas of interest such as city maps and specific forests/lakes/etc... It should make it easier to create a consistent geography with all of the same areas, just at different scales.
the book How to Draw Fantasy Art & RPG Maps by Jared Blando has been an absolute lifesaver for me. It goes step by step through the map making process. It's a phenomenal tool and I highly recommend checking it out.
My upcoming D&D campaign has allowed me to start exploring drawing more seriously, which has been a really awesome side effect. I like doing everything out on paper, although given that my players are spread out across the country I have yet to decide exactly how I will disseminate the information. I got this book along with a drawing pad and a set of nice pencils, and it has been really fun coming up with my world. It's less focused on towns and cities, and more the larger layout of the land, but I think that can be important in informing how a town or city is formed.
Rather than thinking of yourself as a map maker, I would suggest thinking of yourself as a city planner. Pretend you are actually overseeing the construction of the town. What will be important for the citizens to access, how will the layout of the town facilitate that? How will they get food, water, social interaction, entertainment? Start in the middle with the most important stuff, and work your way out.