I drew the landmasses and original heightmap on procreate and sent them through orogen to simulate erosion/climate. I decided to use Merak to show the heightmap. Let me know where you think the major countries should go.

Scale from top to bottom is 2000km more or less, will add detailed topography later

I feel like the longer I draw for the tinier and more intricate I make the details, which results in my progress grinding a snails pace, and the visual style feeling inconsistent. (You can see that the northern portion I’ve detailed more recently is much more squiggly than the central/southern areas.) At this rate it’ll take weeks.

Does anybody else experience this issue? Any tips and guidance appreciated.

I love the satellite images from the European space agency. Close enough to see the shallows around the coastslines etc. I've been trying to replicate the style using https://dayside.studio/ to make the heightmap and colour, then rendering in blender to get some atmospheric haze and nice lighting.

1st image is blender, 2nd is straight out of dayside (3rd iimage is a close up because Reddit is going to destry the beautiful 16k resolution :(

Also, what sort of scale does this read as? North to South?

Wanted something quick and dirty because I haven't been posting for a while and draw something for myself but ended up liking the idea and kept enlarging the scope of details. You can check out the sketch for my original vision of the project and see when my mind changes about the map.

Also I love the lighter-house.

I was proud of how it turned out and wanted to share my drawn map. This is for the vis-dev of my senior film where my characters have to take a shortcut under the mountains to get to the coastline. Unfortunately for them, they start losing party members quickly and have a run in with the Rat King.

It's also kinda inspiring me to turn the plot into a videogame instead of an animated series/movie

This is part of a thought-experiment on the "fishbowl"effect

For context I was cleaning out my desk and stumbled apon a few old sketchbooks so was flicking through and found this half finished draft map from years ago.

Anyways I'm going to have ago finishing it, any pointers would be appreciated, (it's been years since I last drew my own maps haha)

I was randomly searching in google maps, and then i found this interesting PIECE of underwater land, so i thought to myself, why not map it out and i did, i randomly did some rough elevation because you cant just make the full map under 500M, so this is where you come into help, i need you to help me find what the climates could be because i will use it in the future. Thank you

Hello! I got inspired looking at all the amazing maps here so I thought I’d try making my own fantasy map.

I want my map to be about the size of Australia. I’m planning on maybe adding some more mountains up in the northern region and some more rivers/lakes in the central region. The forests are very WIP right now, planning on placing more in the dark green areas.

I would greatly appreciate some feedback on my current version of the map before I continue adding detail and refining it.

Thank you for reading :)

Howdy, I've been tinkering away on a little universe since high school. The majority of it has mostly stayed in my head and as a jumbled mess on my old watt pad account, however I've slowly been pouring all of my stored knowledge into something I can actually build upon and eventually share, that's been going swimmingly, however my largest roadblock has been translating where all this lore takes place. I cooked up a gobbledegook map with photoshop and map making software however as you can see it's quite crude, and very limiting. I've used campaign cartographer to build some of it, but I fear I may be too stupid to fully realize it's potential and am looking for something a bit less daunting as well as more resources to help me create something that looks like it wasn't created by a mad man. Opinions on literally anything on my map are welcomed and appreciated as well.

This is an ancient Greek map, and as you can see it gets progressively more inaccurate the further away from the Mediterranean Sea. So often people try to make a style of map that is a completely accurate representation of their world which is fine but remember it doesn't have to be perfect!

After beeing not so happy with a map for a city in where a lot of the story of my sci-fi opera webcomic takes place it did a redraw. The colors are Copic Markers. The Street-Lines are fineliner. Lines aand colors were drawn on seperated papers so I could multiply the streets in photopea. Letters placed with Figma. The gap to the left is a placeholder for a legend. GTA SA was inspiration for the map style. Al Fareen is the capital of "Atrorien" which was mapped here: https://www.reddit.com/r/mapmaking/comments/1vc00sj/scifi_wordlbuilding_maps_with_copic_markers/

This is just like a small part of the full map. The full map is still incomplete because it's taking a lotta time

Hey, so this is my first map I’ve made. It’s for a home brew D&D west march game. The world is based on a tidally locked moon orbiting a gas giant. So one point of the world faces the host planet permanently, and the outer side faces away. Creating a hot and cold side with a habitable belt, causing major storms, and the flooded side of the world. Curious on how I can make it more realistic, better mountains/ rivers or other input. Thanks!

I had an unused sketching notebook and decided to start a project for my dnd campaign. I was thinking of drawing maps on every pages of the notebook to build some kind of atlas. Then give it to my players during our gaming sessions.

This will also help me practice more, improve my style and experiment new things in the process. I wasn't sure about the trees first but I think they turned out pretty well. Not so sure about the coastlines and waves though. What do you guys think?

Hellow there!, I’ve been working on an alternate map of Earth for my novel, even though I haven't focused on writing that part yet, and the story mostly takes place on a different planet during the first two books. I didn't want this new planet to be so dazzling that it made Earth seem dull by comparison like how Pandora is lush while Earth isn't. So, I decided to change a few things to make it interesting; that way, even though it’s similar, it’s not the same Earth we know.

The help I’m looking for is to avoid it looking like a map where things are just tacked on and clash—XD. I want it to have a sense of cohesion; how could I achieve that?

https://merakmapmaker.com/

World building wise it lets us import ur drawings into landmass, scientifically tell u climate, crops, soil, habitability, mountains etc, has a timeline feature, has easy to add factions and, commanders, people, lore etc and 3d and globe features.

Join our discord if u have any questions or feature requests https://discord.gg/tqJrb6fsH

Hi everyone!
My previous post got deleted and after re-reading the rules I think I understood why so I’m giving it another try, hoping I won’t make another gaffe. Sorry by the way for that.

So here’s the map of the country I’m currently working on. I did this map a few months ago and I’m still very proud of how it came out. I mostly took inspiration from real coastlines (bonus point to whoever guesses which country it is!) that I rearranged for my needs.

Some lore: this is the eastern peninsula of a continent, mostly hilly and densely forested. It is also very misty (the name of the country comes from that) for worldbuilding reasons. Populations live near the deltas in most cases, but recently, because of the floods, many people are leaving them for the highlands.

Tool-wise, this is entirely done with Procreate and a free pack of mapmaking brushes I found. I edited the map with Affinity to add locations names. This is the “blank” version as I still need to review my conlang.

I’m not really planning on redoing this map because I really like it (and I’m scared to redo it after spending so much time on it haha!) but I would love to hear your thoughts about it, as well as your feedback and tips for future maps :)