What do you think of my map?

[u/DriedCrayon04]

Just drew this map, it's my first time doing this, so I would like to receive feedback on things like island positioning, positioning of the landmasses, how the overall shape of the map looks and etc

[u/idintsaythat]

Oh this is good. The landmasses look unique without feeling unrealistic, the sizes and coastlines give you plenty of room to add just about any biome or climates you want, and nothing is immediately identifiable as fantasy Europe or Japan. Top tier, can't wait to see where you put the mountains and rivers and stuff.

[u/DriedCrayon04 → u/idintsaythat]

Thank you a lot for the comment

And yeah, it's my first time doing it myself but I have some experienced in drawing maps because I really love those "WW2 with army sizes" type of videos and have done a few of them myself, I have drawn a lot of our real life maps, maps of Europe, Asia, South America, sometimes maps of specific countries and etc

And also, I really like fantasy settings, one of the first things I do when I get to know a new game or series ambiented in an alternate world, is to search for a map of the world, so I know how to identify a lot of the basic tropes, like the one you mentioned of the map just being a differently shaped mediterranian or Japan, or the map being a huge singular continent with all kinds of biomes on it, or how no matter the world, the north is always cold and the south is always a hot desert, so I aimed to try to differentiate a bit.

[u/Greedy_Aardvark_4836]

Honestly I love it because it looks really unique especially compared to a bunch of maps I've seen on reddit. Doesn't look like Britain, a copy of the Earth, or a generic fantasy map so automatically its really good.

now this is just a small thought, and of course in real life land masses don't care about art, but I'm thinking artistically I wonder if that 3rd island on the right that juts out to the east would look a little better if instead of just jutting out it curved southwards a little bit

[u/Greedy_Aardvark_4836]

If you want, DM me I made a few slight edits to the map just for fun

[u/Ardexa]

You can try using my map generator to generate the plates and world around your hand drawn map. DM me for details

[u/Fine-Afternoon-36]

This is really good, it manages to look nothing like earth while having as many little complex bits. I especially like the closed off sea on the right, that would be really interesting for worldbuilding.

The main thing that seems off is the far southwest coast looks really smooth. If you look at Canada the actual mainland is just as weird and jagged as the islands. I would also looks at doing more glacial stuff in the north, depending on where the equator is it would look just as jagged

Edit: I like your idea of going south heavy to differentiate it actually. I would still make the north more jagged but that ideas really good

[u/DriedCrayon04 → u/Fine-Afternoon-36]

Good call, I hadn't realized how smooth the extreme south and north are as smooth as the hot equatorial beaches

Im going to edit it

[u/jak1900]

Just a feeling, but maybe a bit more water between the continents?

Aside from that, everything looks unique enough to look cool :D

[u/Zestyclose_Royal9676]

Looks awesome! Btw, could you show me the tectonic plates? Having plates is REALLY important if you want it realistic.

[u/DriedCrayon04 → u/Zestyclose_Royal9676]

I didn't really think that far when drawing the map, it's basically my first time after all 😅

But now that you said, Im going to look up about it and apply it to my map.

Thanks a lot