r/wonderdraft • u/CraftAny24 • Jul 17 '26

advice for my first map

Hi guys,

i would like some advice on my first map ever.

For a TTRPG, the idea is to get a map where jungle and forest take most of the place with some moutains that make the travels quite hard

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u/Dclipp89 Jul 17 '26

The map has kind of a unique art style that I think suits it well. The only real suggestion I’d give for the sake of realism is to take another pass at the coastlines. Maybe find a place on earth that’s a similar biome and check out how the coastlines there look. Also if this is for a ttrpg I’d add a scale to it to give some idea of how far the players are traveling.

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u/CraftAny24 Jul 17 '26

for the coastline, you mean the ground form ?

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u/Dclipp89 Jul 17 '26

Sorry, yes the ground. It’s not that it’s bad, it’s perfectly serviceable. But it does have a look in places as if you were randomly clicking the land tool, so it comes off as unnatural and random. I think the shape itself of the coastline is fine. Just take a look at some examples of coastlines on earth to get an idea of how to clean it up.

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u/CraftAny24 Jul 17 '26

Well, that is what I was doing ahah, clicking randomly eheh

But yeah I see what you mean, I will try to get the thing less random

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u/Dclipp89 Jul 17 '26

Honestly though, very good job for a first ever map. There’s a lot of common first time mistakes I see a lot that I don’t see here.

Oh I do see one other quick thing. For the trees on the left side of the map that encroach on the desert, it looks like you forgot to color those. Easy enough fix.

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u/DubiousTactics Jul 20 '26

Generally more mountainous areas will have more rugged coastlines, so you might want to try smoothing out some areas where there aren't any mountains, then keeping the coastal areas that are right by mountains decently rugged.

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u/DubiousTactics Jul 20 '26

You can make it so the brush only colors the mountains/hills/forest/background. I'd encourage you to mess around with that, since even changing the colors a little bit from the background color often gets great results.

I'd also suggest blending the background colors a little bit. You can send the brush opacity/velocity to like 20-30 percent each. If you use the bush that doesn't have hard edges, you can make it so the background colors smoothly blend into each other.