Trying something a little more urban for this one. Need to do some at a smaller scale though. Was hoping to draw some buildings, but the scale only suited 2 of them, castle and church/temple (the lower left circle is a fountain in my head). Still a fun exercise for imagining city street layout.

Ended up noisier than I would have liked. This scale is harder to balance detail vs useability

More coastlines = more fun. Experimenting with labels

Been doodling but not posting. A couple of small generic maps for practice

Another tiny strip of paper, for filling up odd gaps in a city:

Didn't know what to do with this tiny scrap of paper until I figured this could fill in many gaps in a cementery layout:

I'd gotten used to gel pens and then whoever gets the office supplies bought different kind of pens, and... I'm not a fan (see this post).

So I bought new pens... but I decided to buy two different point sizes (0.5mm and 0.7mm). I think it shows on this map. I like it.

You see all those professional cartographers and illustrators using pens with 10 different point sizes... now I know why.

After struggling with pine forests, I decided to leave this as-is.

Happy New Year everyone!

From a video game, if anyone can guess. Not exactly a ttrpg, but still

Aaand we’re back online

This time with text. Work is slow if you can't tell.

On a standard-sized sticky note

I’m still unsatisfied with the “mass of trees”. Seems like individual trees is the way to go. At least for my own drawing skills.

For those curious about what I was actually trying to accomplish, at the beginning of this video Nate shows a few styles:

https://youtu.be/AXnnGiBPpQY

If you pause at 2:32… I wanted mostly #2, but mixed with #5