A New, Simple Map: From The Water Comes The Grain
Name: Crescent Hill Details A very simple map. Leaves a lot to the imagination, with features are just off the map. But dig a little deeper, and you will find f...
Category: Weekly Post
We Make Maps
As a weekly post. We upload a new map every week.
The building blocks for stories are often simple. Sometimes all you need is a good map to look at.
It could be the unique shape of a hill, or the bend of a river.
Maps Made With:
- Wonderdraft
- Microsoft Apps:
- Paint 3D
- Paint
Series
A New, Simple Map
This series less focused and detailed. A map might depict an island, or a continent. There will also be fully landlocked or fully submerged maps.
A weekly post in this series has an emphasis on the generated randomness that is hard-baked into working with Wonderdraft’s world generation.
Check out Wonderdraft here, and or find some YouTube videos on it.
A New, Simple Location
More structured than A New, Simple Map. Many of the maps will have a theme. They will also be modular, able to be set side by side to create larger maps.
Due to that modular nature, weekly posts in this series have an emphasis on constancy in:
- Scale
- Generation
- and Personal abstraction
- the additions a creator makes to better fit the theme.
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A New, Simple Map: The Cornucopia of Marxadang
Name: Marxadang| N 39°, W 4° | Details Back to world scaled maps. I am trying to work on the “cracked” look that river mouths give coastlines. The e...
A New, Simple Map: Hawtah’s Horn
Name: Hawtah| N 7°, E 81° | Details Trying to blend my personal touches into a map, mostly made in Wonderdraft. When it comes to baking “culture” in...
A New, Simple Map: Island Time at Botum
Name: Botum| N 35°, E 14° | Details Trying to simplify the map graphics even more. I still want to make my own graphics, but I want to keep them simple. I also ...
A New, Simple Map: The Foot of Mont Blaow
Name: Mt. Blaow| N 36°, W 82° | Details Turned this one out faster than expected. Trying to integrate some new processes, previously tested-ran in my La’o...
A New, Simple Map: La’ou
Name: La’ou| N 35°, E 108° | Details Trying to simplify the “official” look, with Faded boundaries, Logo, Compass, etc. I’m slowly getti...
A New, Simple Map: Rocky Shores of Rumtub
Name: Rumtub| N 41°, W 73° | Details I tried my hand at map keys again. Thankfully, I had more time to work on the key design. It might be too gaudy, but the po...
A New, Simple Map: Alphine’s Sugar Beaches
Name: Alphine| N 44.17°, E 12.44° | Details This one feels more like an adventure world map. Still local, but with distinct areas. Tried my hand at maps keys. I...
A New, Simple Map: The Flow of Time Through Vestus
Name: Vestus| N 44.17°, E 12.44° | Details Starting to warm up to these smaller scale maps. Easier to engage with. Might make a continent scale one next week, o...
A New, Simple Map: The Sovereign’s Resources
Name: Sovereign| N 52.95°, W 1.10° | Details Smaller scale than previous maps, but keeping with the polished look. Using sand color to show topographical “...