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Anybody care to share their map?

Mindfire

Istar
White's land, black's ocean. I do eventually plan to make the map pretty, though I'm also hoping to have one in a topographic style where I can pick out individual mountains. Having tried that multiple times before I know I'm destined to failure, but you can't win if you don't try.



Trust me it only looks this detailed due to the scaling. When I zoom in all the way this is what it looks like at the currently most detailed spot

Eh, your coastlines are still more detailed than mine are. I've posted my map elsewhere in this thread, but I'll repost so you can see what I'm talking about (plus this is a slightly newer version with some added details, but also a few imperfections since editing isn't 100% done).


Click for full-size.


As you can see, my coastlines aren't nearly as detailed and elaborate as yours. I'm more of a big picture kinda guy, I suppose.
 
I'm somewhere in-between broad coasts and detail I suppose. Here's a clean hi-res version of my previously posted world:

IIo World Map-CleanHiRes copy.jpg

Click for more hi-res

Although some areas are quite hi-res, you have to figure that this world is a bit larger than Earth-normal, so those coastlines are actually not that detailed at all. Each continent was between one-two 8 1/2 by 11 pieces of paper that I individually scanned and edited together, so it was relatively easy to get as much detail as I did.

I then taped together all the original maps and it ended up being like 3 feet by 4 feet. It was legendary.
 
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Jabrosky

Banned
Here's a modified, much more geographically extensive evolution of the map I showed earlier. Now comes with a legend and place names!

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Oh, and I like Mindfire's new map too, especially now that it has flags.
 
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Here's a modified, much more geographically extensive evolution of the map I showed earlier. Now comes with a legend and place names!

fantasy_world_version_2_by_brandonspilcher-d6e5waf.png


Oh, and I like Mindfire's new map too, especially now that it has flags.

I haven't been able to see your last two maps. Just me?
 

Jabrosky

Banned
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Sekhotep and the Key to Heaven Map
This map of Africa, which I made in Photoshop, is not necessarily complete, but right now all of the locations labeled on it feature in my story Sekhotep and the Key to Heaven as I have planned it so far. The major African civilizations that will be visited are Kemet (ancient Egypt) in the northeast, Mali in the northwest, and Zimbabwe in the south. One of the supporting characters comes from Hispania in the far north while the villain is Babylonian. I may add more labels in the future as I write the book and include more locations.

In case the above image embedding doesn't work...
 

ascanius

Inkling
A little necromancy :)

Figured I pull a little Necromancy and share my 30% completed map, it's mostly what has been taking up 90% of my writing time. It's so excruciatingly tedious I'm running out of procrastination methods.

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I also learned how to use the search function after going through all the world building pages. Sometimes I'm a little slow
 

Noldona

Scribe
Here is the world I am currently building. The world was generated with Fractal Terrains 3 (FT3). The political overlays were done in Photoshop. I exported the world from FT3 and am currently working on Campaign Cartographer 3 (CC3) on producing a series of linked maps for the different continents, nations, cities, etc. The idea is to eventually have a whole link atlas for the world down to each town mapped and floorplans for at least the important buildings if not all of them.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B4vjir083h1QYnI0clpGLXdiM2M&authuser=0
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B4vjir083h1QWjBQcmNQVkhST1k&authuser=0

While skimming through the thread, I saw several people against the offerings from Profantasy. While I agree it can be pricey verses free options like Gimp and such, it is a great piece of software for what it's made for. Maybe it's just because my world building is more focused on tabletop RPG campaign use then novel writing, but I definitely thing the cost is worth it.
 

arbiter117

Minstrel
Here's what I've been working on. The basic map layout has been something I've been redrawing for years, but only recently I said to myself: "Self, digital art looks like a fun hobby to take up." So I got a tablet and Corel Painter 2015 and made an attempt at making my map digital. Here's what I have:

Eredros by arbiter11711 on DeviantArt
 

Reilith

Sage
I was really hoping there is a thread like this! Yaaay! You guys are so talented!
@Mathias, I know which tutorial you used for the map, I saw the same one actually, but didn't use it much. ^^
Mine doesn't show the whole world, so I might do another less detailed sometimes, to show the whole known world, just for the sake of it.
Anyway, here's my still unfinished map(the roads are missing and I am thinking of maybe doing a close-up on just Therannia, since the whole story is set there): http://oi59.tinypic.com/2i0zzav.jpg

It is done completely in PS, I used some wonderful free brush sets from dA that I shared in another thread. It has around 13 layers at the moment, plus all the names are in separate ones.

Also a question, is the font too hard to read? I really liked it for the map, but I am not sure if it is readable for a map.
 

Noldona

Scribe
Also a question, is the font too hard to read? I really liked it for the map, but I am not sure if it is readable for a map.

The font itself isn't hard, but the size makes it difficult. It you scaled up the size a bit, I think it would fine.

On an unrelated note, is your avatar Vin from the Mistborn series?
 

Reilith

Sage
I was also thinking of re-sizing it, but there are many important points I want to include in this version, so I have yet to get to a decision. It is still the alpha version of the map.

And yes, it is Vin! I fell in love with Sanderson's Mistborn, I am currently reading "The Hero Of Ages". I know people see them as very big, slow paced and wordy books, but I found so much I was looking for in terms of writing and characterization in his books that I can't seem to put them down.
 
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