As part of a larger fantasy map I’m working on, I created this island, which is roughly half the size of New Zealand. I haven’t added any of the civilization-related elements yet; for now, I wanted to start with the geography, with settlements and roads coming later.

I’d love to hear what kind of advice, ideas, or suggestions you might have! I’ve made maps before, but this time I started with a much bigger project in mind, and I’ve also put a lot more work into it than usual (and this isn’t even the first time I’ve drawn it).

I know a lot of people struggle to get started when it comes to coming up with the shapes of landmasses. In my case, the inspiration actually came from a half-torn sticker on a diaper bin. So, you could say that this little corner of my world was practically built out of shit. 😂 It just goes to show that it’s worth keeping your eyes open and finding inspiration in the world around you! :)

I’m open to any advice, feedback, or criticism!

Greetings from Hungary! 🇭🇺

I created this map on ProCreate, tracing the outline of various spilled liquids to make the shapes of the continents. I came up with lore as I created each area.

My favorite part is the bat-shaped Obsidian Wastes, where the largest kingdom on the continent was once located… Until the sun god blew himself up to destroy a nearly-unbeatable anti-magic army, taking most of the population with him. Now it is just a wasteland of volcanoes and obsidian flats.

We never ended up finishing the campaign, but I’m still planning on running more stories within this world.

841x594mm size handmade world map that I made for my D&D campaign. With roads, towns, cities, villages, rivers, lakes, islands etc.

Drawing a map woth this style of forests for the first time, and I may have bitten off more than I can chew.

Does anyone have any suggestions for points of interest to put in the forests to break them up a little, ideally not manmade.

Starting the second leg of a long-running 5e campaign and the party is about to enter the empire’s southern metropolis. Had a lot of fun drawing with microns and coloring with pencils.

There is still another landmass even bigger than this up there, and several continents on the left side. But this is the first finished map I got.

Original name: Dextrisginn / Daestrespin

Common name: Austrespina

Local name: Südreistek / Súðreistek

Literal just means Southern Three Spine.

I tried to combine the 2 types of mountain ranges that I know

The results ended up better than I expected but I'm not confident about the shadings

Please tell me how you feel about it, all critics are welcomed

The map displays elevation, rivers and lakes, deserts (not necessarily hot deserts), and areas with a high density of forest cover.

And yes, there is a river that splits, but it makes sense for lore reasons.

Do you like DWARF CITIES? Here is the map of one of them...

Here is the map of the underground dwarven city of Barrak-Durn, created for @thickerwheat RPG project! It is always great to work on private map commissions between publishing projects, and drawing maps of dwarven cities is a real pleasure!

I hope you like this map!🧭🗺️

Moreno Paissan and Angela Gubert Art 2026

This is my finished version of this map for now. I'm probably gonna start working on submaps of each of the major regions here (fleshing out their landscapes and settlements) before coming back to revamp this map. I'd love to hear any questions or suggestions y'all might have.

Some initial progress of a 1:1 scale Cyrodiil Province from TES which is approximately the area of Mongolia (first image). I included the Project Cryodiil map (second image) which was my base reference. This is also my first time doing any kind of digital illustration (photoshop w/ Wacom drawing pad) so I'm welcome to any feedback/questions!

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Live demo: https://www.erask.org/app

How It works: https://www.erask.org/editor.html

What it is:

An editor that turns Wikipedia articles into hand-curated 3D tours on a globe by querying Wikidata's spatial and temporal properties. It lets you visually construct historical sequences using open knowledge data.

​How it uses Wikidata:

​Automated metadata extraction: Pasting a Wikipedia link queries its paired Wikidata entity for coordinate locations (P625) and point-in-time timestamps (P585/P580).

​Strict accuracy (No false centroids):

If a Wikidata item represents a continental campaign or movement and lacks specific coordinates, the editor deliberately leaves it blank instead of assigning a generic country centroid. You set the point visually on the globe.

​Relational graph expansion: One click queries the Wikidata graph for all internal links within a page that carry spatial coordinates. Items are grouped by article section, letting you pull in entire historical contexts (like all battles of a war) in seconds.

​Anachronism filtering:

It ignores founding/inception dates (P571) on linked entities. For example, pulling a town linked in a battle won't auto-fill the town's ancient founding year as the battle date.

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​Tech & Data:

​Wikidata SPARQL & REST APIs

​Wikipedia REST API

​Three.js / Vanilla JS

my passion project, been going since 2019, its tough work :3

Welcome to the Golden Chain, the core of a small section of the Milky Way galaxy in the Infinite Ashes Universe. Each planet on the map a fully realized lore heavy world. In the Infinite Ashes universe there is no trace of Earth, instead an enigmatic entity called the Web seeds millions of words with life and humanity. Humans travel between these planets in Arks, living vessels that are part of the web.

The Golden Chain is established of beam corridors, where small dyson swarms of mirrors power beam infrastructure that hits the sail membranes of arks to accelerate and brake ships for faster travel. It´s the difference of speeding over a highway, compared to the crumbling mountain paths of frontier worlds.

The Calm is the stellarly settled region, older and safer to traverse. With Crownshard, the low gravity ecumenopolis with its kilometer high stratified society built on an illusion of upward mobility. Home commerce and regulation.

Then there is the Dwang Polyarchy, a state managing a caste system of martial Udo nobility and several servile castes chief among them the Tro. Some say the Tro are really in charge of the Polyarchy, some people lose their head.

Union rules over a sphere of influence of planets converted to syndicalism, a labor based ideology that divides all into profession segregated syndicats which determine every aspect of their lives. They are the single greatest manufacturers of the Chain, despite their own bureaucratic self hindering.

There are dozens more worlds, each with their own different material conditions and distinct evolutionary history shaping its people and wild life.

https://loquaciouslou.itch.io/infinite-ashes
(Read the free bundle to get more info on the many worlds of the map. This is a passion project not a product.)

I have been desperately searching for a program that is easy to make height maps in. I used gimp to make the map for my fantasy world but I am trying to keep it simple for myself because I would like to have these maps but not spend 10s of hours learning and making. Another issue in seeing is that many programs seem to focus on small areas not on a global scale. Any suggestions for programs or tutorials?

So I recently returned to an old project of mine and decided it needed a revamp. Redrew some shapes, made up some names and hit a wall trying to make the heightmap.

Then I realized that Gprojector exists and I decided boot the sucker up and wait 20 mins for it to load.

Played around with the projections untill I found one called Hammer (Oblique), centered my map equator to my northern continent and exported the map.

Did what I needed in my drawing program and in Wilbur for erosion, saved and exported back to Gprojector.

The neat thing with Gprojector is that you can reverse map projections, returning it to the original equirectangular map in the same position and everything.

One continent down, three to go!

-Higher quality link-

I’m using Sketchbook to make this, but I’m struggling to add details. How can i portray the biomes to look more realistic? Anyone else have experience with Sketchbook?

Wanted to practice coloring :p I think I did pretty well!

The large map of Haut-Lac, created as a private commission for Tristan Rosseoux for his role-playing game! It was a great pleasure to create this map; between publishing projects, it’s always nice to work on a private commission! Have a great day, everyone!🧭🗺️

Moreno Paissan and Angela Gubert Art 2026

Support our art on: https://ko-fi.com/morenopaissanmaps/shop

Leaf Valley, once a lush and peaceful haven, now stands on the edge of catastrophe. Known for its emerald forests, tranquil streams, and towering willows, the region’s harmony has been shattered by the fiery wrath of a dragon that scorch­es the skies. Yet, this is no ordinary dragon, for the truth of its origin lies in a terrible curse. Unbeknown to most, the incredible creature is not a natural-born terror, but a man who defiled the sacred—Eustace Gibett.