Here’s a map I made from our Dungeon World game. Last night was our second session. The PCs are currently in Gold Wall, to the east. Over the past two sessions the PCs have learned of most of the places on the map and were just given an actual map, so I threw this together this morning.
That is nice, what did you use?
I used Corel Photo-paint (like Photoshop) and I grabbed the brushes from here: http://starraven.deviantart.com/art/Sketchy-Cartography-Brushes-198264358
Very nice all around – the coloring is especially pleasing, though I can’t exactly say why.
Matt, maybe because it is a warm tone and gives the look of aged parchment?
It has the look of something that’s been printed in 4 different colors of ink on an early printing press.
Oh certain, Jeff Jones – the faux-parchment look is part of it. I think maybe that and the red is reminding me of the map of the Lonely Mountain – I recall Erebor (or maybe it was Smaug) being drawn in red.
It’s a nice looking map. What software did you use?
Fantastic, looks almost like you drew it by hand with color pencil
Tyler Provick Photo-paint
Raoni Monteiro I can’t really take credit for that, it was the brushes I used, which I linked to above in the comments.
The choice of colors make a lot of the effect too. 😉
Don’t be too modest. It’s possible to make an obnoxious, repetitive map using those brushes.
I like it, and what’s more, I get to use it!
I like it. It reminds me of the maps we’d see in the older wilderness field guides we used when I was a kid, on family camping and hiking trips, among other things. (When I discovered D&D, a lot of my early gaming was basically in Fantasy Yosemite and Fantasy Sequoia.) Good stuff!
What a crazy coincidence ! I was just about to redraw my own world map today and I was looking for Photoshop brushes. I’m delighted !
I really like the variation of the mountain brushes and the trees are pretty nice. There’s grasses and other terrain, but I didn’t get that detailed. I’m not a huge fan of the city/town/village icons, but I was just looking for something quick.
Robert Adducci your choice of colours is excellent, and also the way you used the mountains makes the map look hand drawn.
I am sure others will agree that you should post more maps 🙂
This is great! Thanks for linking to the brushes – I’ve just downloaded them now 🙂