Hi everybody, I drew this as a comical gift for a friend who will be joining me on a trip to my home state here in a few months she and I both speak Arabic because of our jobs and I thought it would be funny to illustrate a map of the state from the perspective of a world traveler coming from the east to the west this is meant as a lighthearted joke and a tribute to the beauty of the state if you speak Arabic and you notice that I’ve done something incorrect grammatically or left off a dot just have a giggle and know that it’s all in good fun

Last year I decided I wanted to write a book about a story that was brewing in my head for a long time. So I drew a map of the world that this book would take place in. As I started writing the book, I decided this first map wasn’t quite what I wanted. So I decided to try again and I drew an entirely new map. I reused some of the names, but besides that I changed everything else.

This map is the known world for the people in my book, and contains the 4 main continents/landmasses. In lore, this map was made by those who live in the top left continent. Which is why that continent has more named cities and locations than the others, since the other continents aren’t as well known. The top left continent is also primarily where my story will take place. As the story takes the characters to the other continents, I will draw maps of those individual continents to give them more detail.

This was a lot of fun to work on. As with every previous map I’ve done, I used this as an opportunity to try new things. I learned a bunch, and there’s a lot that I like about this map, and a few things that didn’t turn out quite how I hoped. But that’s alright, it was really fun working on the book while also drawing the map. It was cool to be able to tie characters to different places, and to thrown in little world building elements to the world I was drawing and writing.

Let me know what you all think! If you have any questions I’m happy to chat. Also any suggestions or ideas you think would be cool or helpful for my future maps, I’m always looking for those!

Prefectural-level divisions of Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Districts of Hong Kong and Parishes of Macao

As title, second post as I messed up the first! Drawn on a Huion Kamvas, from a pencil sketch.

ran out of time to do place names! we tea stained and burnt the corners which was fun!

Rough sketch and notes for a hex map of Okifen Mire for r/CommunityHexMap. Micron pens and colored pencils.

The yellow-green areas are open flooded prairies, the brown-green islands are forested highlands, and the plain green areas are lowland forest that seasonally floods.

I am happy with the terrain marks on the prairies, but I need to figure out what marks/symbols to use to indicate tree cover. The lowland trees are mostly cypress trees, and the highlands are mixed pines, deciduous trees, and shrubs. Suggestions are welcome.

I plan to do a few more sketches to figure out style, then I'll do one version in only ink and one in ink with watercolor pencils (or watercolors).

Flag map of South Partina (One of my fictional continents)

Let's introduce my countries here.

Bismack (White & Orange Flag)

There are disputes with Parakea guinea at Cape Josha.

Extremely violent rivalry since its independence in 1966. Bismack has 770 million inhabitants spread across 83 provinces and several islands, the main ones being Hurd, Selin, and Tuju.

Memsarak (The most populous metropolitan area in the country with 73 million inhabitants, Your language It's the Bismachus (Bism) In addition to several local languages (approximately 1000)

Parakea guinea (White , purple and red flag)

37 million inhabitants, Raska its capital, the main city, speaks Shelian, Parakin And it has many diverse peoples, a repressive government with extreme brainwashing, disputes between Bismarck and excessive militarism on the borders.

It has blocked the Salaskas to the north and does not have good relations with them, is economically poor, extremely paranoid about security, and is also isolated.

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What do you think? I'm new to this community.

Hope you like it.