writeshiek33
Sage
first things first i cant draw or afford service so how can i create maps for my fantasy ideas
Yes! And use soft pencils... It is a lot easier to erase a road or a castle and move it to the other side of the river on a piece of paper. And the hex/graphs can give you a scale to work with.I buy pieces of graph or hex paper and draw them by hand. Something to be said about doing things the old fashioned way.
I'd start with an overall map for the whole world with the rough layout and information, nothing too detailed. Then I'd go to a map for each of the continents that feature in your story and then further maps for the areas you need to map in greater detail [cities, towns, valleys and the like] down to as small as you need. I've gotten down to setting out the photos on a piano and what was in a larder. I like making maps...Skybreaker has a question! I have a world with 24 continents. How do I make a world map for this? Should all my continents be grouped in the northern hemisphere?
Thanks for the advice! I'll look into itI'd start with an overall map for the whole world with the rough layout and information, nothing too detailed. Then I'd go to a map for each of the continents that feature in your story and then further maps for the areas you need to map in greater detail [cities, towns, valleys and the like] down to as small as you need. I've gotten down to setting out the photos on a piano and what was in a larder. I like making maps...
As for the continents, put them where you want. Get a real world map and flip it upside down. It's the same map but suddenly everything is at the bottom except Australia and New Zealand [which is grateful for being on the map at all ]. If you do find all your continents in the north, turn the map around and work with it THAT way up...
24 large islands, then. Basically, its just a really big world, the size of about Asia x 20, + Australia x 4.Skybreaker, how do you have 24 continents? How do you distinguish between a continent and a large island?
Hell yeah! Anthology abound!I hope you plan on writing many books in that setting because you are really talking about building twenty-four worlds!