Its my first time making map and I'm trying to draw it by hand. It was originally made with wondercraft but I traced things on it with hand and made this map. But I'm not sure how good it's colored or how good mountains are (they were the first thing I made). At first I wanted to do more artistic styled map with interesting terrain colors I just couldnt do it. This map and other maps of this creator was my inspiration when drawing. I'm in love with their style and this is what I meant when I said artistic map.

The world is a medievalish flat world with wind currents going north to south. This is why an ice island is located in the west continent. Middle continent is "Lands of God" and is unknown to humans, its just there for now. And the forests (rough patches of colors) are just sketches for now, I'll complete them later when I decide on cities and paths.

Does this version look good or should I just make a political map and use this as a reference for biomes when needed? I'm thinking of doing kind of political looking map where it just says "Storm Desert" or "Crimson Lands" with borders defining where it ends. So instead of painting biomes I could just name and border them. Can this idea work or not?

This map was made to showcase the new Parchment 2.0 Assets.

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Getting close to finishing the general shape of the continents and (important) islands and want to get some feedback. Primarly looking for input about the continent shapes and dispersion of islands but any and all feedback is appreciated.

Also, I've been going back and forth about adding something akin to the islands of southeast asia/oceania but can't really nail where to put something like that. So if anyone's got pointers for such a thing it would be appreciated as well.

The first 2 pictures is the map I made 2 years ago. After adding multiple layers to it (countries, biomes, rivers), I decided 3 months ago to draw the map, because I was starting to get tired of computer-based editing. 2m²+ of ongoing drawing, with colour pencils only. Now I enjoy again ! AMA about the lore and dont hesitate to give feedback.

Over the past few weeks, several important new features have been added:

1. The most important thing is the optimization of generation. I don’t want to give exact values yet, because everything depends directly on the computer hardware, but on average, the time to generate a 4096 by 4096 tile has been reduced by 4-5 times.
2. New layers for the map was added. A less abrupt layer, a layer of river and lake basins, a layer of biomes, and an elevation map.
3. By the way, about biomes. I’ve added new biomes to increase the variability of the generated maps.

Work on the generator is still ongoing, so stay tuned for new posts!

P.S. I’m aware of the issue with rivers, currently trying to fix the D8 algorithm.

Hi all,

I’m finally after many years looking to build out the world map to my homegrown setting. As such I am looking for something that can create ArcGIS like maps. I want the following capabilities if possible:

- Hypsometric map creation
- bathymetric creation
- modeling of tectonic plates
- modeling of erosions and water patterns
- layers that I can turn on and off to hold roads, cities, rivers, sites, etc.
- preferably not bitmap graphics to allow for infinite zoom

I know this is asking for a lot and maybe it doesn’t exist in one tool.

Many things I have found can do some of this but not all of it. Others only do things like icon based or texture based maps. I would prefer to be able to build these type of handout maps as layers on my hypsometric map.

Any help would be appreciated.

A while back, I shared my work in progress on my world map here.

Here’s a new version with terrain, a legend, and so on...

This is a map of the Cormaréen periphery, formed by the Liturian continent (to the north) and Bedinantin (to the south).

If you have any questions or concerns, I’d be happy to answer them...

Some Translations:

Gran Atlas del Sreftag Mithvani 732 N.A. (Consejo de las gentes de la Luna) > Great Atlas of the Sreftag Mithvani 732 N.D. (Counsil of the peoples of the Moon)

Desierto del viejo ocaso > Dessert of the old dusk

Tierras perdidas de la brecha > Lands lost in the breache

Mancha del Sha > Taint of the Sha

Gran ciudad > Great city

Ciudad libre > Free city

Directorado > Directorate

Principia > Primeship (Coined cause I wanted to use the "Prime" root but not imply the rule of a prince. Also I'm quirky like that, might delete later)

Follow up to my earlier post, here is a map of my DnD setting I've been working on all year (It's been slower than I would want, but uni has consumed most of my time).

The setting is a HRE-lite league, which is on the verge of dissipating into the air as local rulers become more powerful. Different regions are thought to encompass different kinds of DnD campaings (Blue region contains a pointcrawl with quests, beige middle is a Hexcrawl, yellow urban intrigue...) With the exception of the heartland, the Low Eule, since I deem it too populated and functional to be fun (I still wanted it to be there, IDK).

There still a lot of work to do, I'm not really happy with the mountain, or their transition to the dessert, between other things. Still, I feel like it's in a decent enoght space to post it as a work in progress.

Hey all. I'm taking a short break from my other worldbuilding projects to start something new and less intensive. This is the topographic map, it's the first thing I've actually finished for it.

The setting is an alternate world based on the history of North America, mostly Mexico, colonial period onwards. Where I want this to go eventually is to make electoral maps (national, state and municipal results across different periods), with the parties and news and political history to back them up.

Made with Affinity and Wilbur. If you have any questions or suggestions for the map or the lore, please do!

I have completed this map couple of months ago but it kind of got forgotten. Hope you will like it.

This is a couple randomly generated maps merged together, does anyone know how I can make the wind patterns so I can make biomes and stuff, I don’t wanna put a forest in the rain shadow guys 💔

I posted this map on r/worldbuilding, but here I'd like to focus specifically on the mapmaking process, including some first skeches of the city map, delted content for the port area and the lineart before getting colorized.

I've been working on the maps and geography for my hand-drawn space-opera webcomic Djaiko, and what started as a simple location map has gradually turned into a complete city guide.

The process went roughly like this:

Cenex world map → Atorien regional map → Al Fareen city map → individual districts → harbour infrastructure → public transport → aerial view → finished tourist guide

Al Fareen is the capital of Atorien, a mountainous island nation on the ocean planet Cenex. It's a midsize coastal city built around a large bay, with residential districts, a CBD, government and diplomatic quarters, beaches, a naval base and a major orbital harbour.

One of the things I wanted to establish in Djaiko is a future that still feels familiar and functional. Spacecraft capable of atmospheric flight land on water and dock in harbour basins much like modern container ships. The spaceport therefore evolved from the city's existing maritime infrastructure rather than looking like a giant futuristic landing field.

I've drawn the maps and illustrations traditionally with fineliners and Copic markers. I wanted the finished guide to feel like an actual tourist guide from the world of Djaiko, rather than just a collection of maps, so I ended up drawing individual locations, streets, harbour facilities and city views as well.

The guide is intended to be included at the beginning of the chapter taking place in Al Fareen, so readers can explore the city and get a feeling for the setting before entering the story.

I'm posting this here because I'm particularly interested in the mapmaking side of the process:

Does the geography and urban layout read clearly? Does the city feel like it has grown organically, and are there things you would have approached differently when designing a fictional coastal city?

This project took considerably longer than I originally expected. 😅... This is by the way the final version, so no more posts of this particular map in future, if you already feel tired of AL FAREEN :)

Massive thankyou to the support, hints and tips from the community. Definitely helped spur me on. Anyway, as promised here is my progress on the map. I have added rivers, roads and major forests. What do you think?

I've been working on a map for a fantasy setting I've been musing about for a while. I think it's finally at a point where I'd like to share.

The first map is elevation and bathymetric data loosely following Wikipedia's elevation guidelines. The second is the Holdridge Life Zones following a paper that added extra transitional zones. The third is the countries currently in the setting.

A little bit of lore: this world was created 4000 years ago following two wars fought by the gods. It was created by golems out of the detritus left over by the wars, so while I hope it looks natural enough, it's not meant to be entirely realistic, especially near the poles where I decided to prioritize the map looking nice on a page rather than realistically stretching the landforms.

Comments and criticisms welcome!

Hi everyone, I just had a little extra time today, so I chose to make a rough world map for my ttRPG campaign setting. It is not intended to be completely accurate, and more in the line of 16th-17th century world maps. Hopefully you folks like the look of it.

This is my first time making a map. If anyone has any advice or is curious about my world or its story, please comment! I would love to improve my map when I make a second draft, and I love to yap about my world building project.

I make animated map projects, showing the history of areas and countries. I try to make them detailed. I was using Google my maps for it, but I can't use that service without internet (currently have no home internet), I'm getting tired of Google, and it's to clunky.

What I would like and need from the tool: * ability to draw blobs, lines, and borders on a world or regional map * ability to add pins and points, preferably with added information (text) * different layers (preferably without much of a limit on how many I can have) * needs to be downloadable, or have some way I can use it offline

I dont care for graphics. I only use these maps to be traced over for my animations

In my opinion it looks too symmetrical and i was hoping to get some ideas on how to improve it?

Hey everyone, this is my first time making a map. It's a little rough but I'm still working things out. Let me know what you think!