How to Draw a Fantasy Map (Part 1: Landmasses)
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Published 2019-03-15
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All Comments (21)
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I have a friend who is a dairy farmer. He uses the patterns on the cows as inspiration for world building.
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Me: Ok, this seems easy enough even though my artistic skills at trash. Me, 5 minutes later: Ah, I see, step one is drawing the map
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"so i'll take my eraser and erase the parts i didn't like" (rubs out whole thing)
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YOUTUBE’S FINALLY RECOMMENDING SOMETHING THAT I LIKE!
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Another option for inspiration: Go to a gems and mineral store, some place that sells those polished stone spheres/orbs. Find one you really like with some interesting patterns and inclusions, and bam - not only do you now have an inspiration for a world you can difinitively refer to, but if you buy it you also have a physical spherical representation of your fictional planet!
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Me and the boys at 2AM making a fantasy map using BeAnS
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Everyone noticed how Westeros is clearly UK, but no one's really bummed about it!
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“You probably don’t want to use canned beans” Dang it I already messed up
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Something I took note of: I took this from the geography of the United Kingdom and other places like Finland, Russia, Denmark and Sweden, and even the US East Coast, is a lot of the times when there is very uneven and sharp coasts, islands appear as to show erosion, so it gives that feel that your map is of an old place. Also, something I like to do, is I try and make the lines fade when they get close to the edge of the paper/canvas.
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I took a picture of a cloud in the sky. Instant original continent.
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I actually used to get inspiration from the way fallen leaves (and pollen) would pattern after a rain fall. Leaves would clump together into piles and leave rivulets that the water would drain out from. Sometimes the leaves would be in one large pile. Sometimes it would be a archipelago of piles. Either way, each passing rain system would always create something unique and interesting. I wish I knew how to share a photo to better explain it.
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Nate- when are you going to develop a Photoshop Virtual Bean Scattering Addin, so we can toss digital beans on our digital canvases???
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Me: *has spent over a decade creating a fantasy world that spans an entire planet" Also me: sweating profusely I'm gonna need more beans . . .
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World Anvil has one thing to say about this - SUPER HYPE!!!
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For “the bean technique,” I found that using legos works well too, especially because of all the different shapes and sizes of the pieces, it gives nice landforms.
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this will be great for my expansions on the bionicle universe
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generate a minecraft world map it out find area you like
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I found an old notebook that looked old so I thought what if this was a diary of an explorer who documents these creatures and new plants and stuff along those lines. Now I’m creating a world to put him in...
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I always go overboard and create entire worlds... as in planets...
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I once opened a jar of mayonnaise and thought to myself, "Wow. The mayo on the lid looks a lot like a map"
