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My coworker wanted to surprise her husband with a map of the world he’s been DMing for her and a group of friends, so she asked me to make one for him.

As always, there are a few things I wish I’d done differently and little details I’d tweak in hindsight, but overall, I’m really happy with how it turned out.

I always get asked how long these maps take to draw, so I figured I’d share! This one took me around 20 hours, working just 2–3 hours a week whenever I had some free time in the evenings after work.
It went a bit faster than my last map because they already had their world mapped out in LegendKeeper, which gave me a great reference to work from and saved me quite a bit of time. When I make maps for my own worlds, the process usually takes a little longer because there’s a lot more brainstorming and workshopping involved. I have to figure out the shape of the land, where the mountains and rivers go, and how everything fits together.

Hope y’all like it!

Last year I decided I wanted to write a book about a story that was brewing in my head for a long time. So I drew a map of the world that this book would take place in. As I started writing the book, I decided this first map wasn’t quite what I wanted. So I decided to try again and I drew an entirely new map. I reused some of the names, but besides that I changed everything else.

This map is the known world for the people in my book, and contains the 4 main continents/landmasses. In lore, this map was made by those who live in the top left continent. Which is why that continent has more named cities and locations than the others, since the other continents aren’t as well known. The top left continent is also primarily where my story will take place. As the story takes the characters to the other continents, I will draw maps of those individual continents to give them more detail.

This was a lot of fun to work on. As with every previous map I’ve done, I used this as an opportunity to try new things. I learned a bunch, and there’s a lot that I like about this map, and a few things that didn’t turn out quite how I hoped. But that’s alright, it was really fun working on the book while also drawing the map. It was cool to be able to tie characters to different places, and to thrown in little world building elements to the world I was drawing and writing.

Let me know what you all think! If you have any questions I’m happy to chat. Also any suggestions or ideas you think would be cool or helpful for my future maps, I’m always looking for those!

Last year I decided I wanted to write a book about a story that was brewing in my head for a long time. So I drew a map of the world that this book would take place in. As I started writing the book, I decided this first map wasn’t quite what I wanted. So I decided to try again and I drew an entirely new map. I reused some of the names, but besides that I changed everything else.

This map is the known world for the people in my book, and contains the 4 main continents/landmasses. In lore, this map was made by those who live in the top left continent. Which is why that continent has more named cities and locations than the others, since the other continents aren’t as well known. The top left continent is also primarily where my story will take place. As the story takes the characters to the other continents, I will draw maps of those individual continents to give them more detail.

This was a lot of fun to work on. As with every previous map I’ve done, I used this as an opportunity to try new things. I learned a bunch, and there’s a lot that I like about this map, and a few things that didn’t turn out quite how I hoped. But that’s alright, it was really fun working on the book while also drawing the map. It was cool to be able to tie characters to different places, and to thrown in little world building elements to the world I was drawing and writing.

Let me know what you all think! If you have any questions I’m happy to chat. Also any suggestions or ideas you think would be cool or helpful for my future maps, I’m always looking for those!

Last year I decided I wanted to write a book about a story that was brewing in my head for a long time. So I drew a map of the world that this book would take place in. As I started writing the book, I decided this first map wasn’t quite what I wanted. So I decided to try again and I drew an entirely new map. I reused some of the names, but besides that I changed everything else.

This map is the known world for the people in my book, and contains the 4 main continents/landmasses. In lore, this map was made by those who live in the top left continent. Which is why that continent has more named cities and locations than the others, since the other continents aren’t as well known. The top left continent is also primarily where my story will take place. As the story takes the characters to the other continents, I will draw maps of those individual continents to give them more detail.

This was a lot of fun to work on. As with every previous map I’ve done, I used this as an opportunity to try new things. I learned a bunch, and there’s a lot that I like about this map, and a few things that didn’t turn out quite how I hoped. But that’s alright, it was really fun working on the book while also drawing the map. It was cool to be able to tie characters to different places, and to thrown in little world building elements to the world I was drawing and writing.

Let me know what you all think! If you have any questions I’m happy to chat. Also any suggestions or ideas you think would be cool or helpful for my future maps, I’m always looking for those!

Last year I decided I wanted to write a book about a story that was brewing in my head for a long time. So I drew a map of the world that this book would take place in. As I started writing the book, I decided this first map wasn’t quite what I wanted. So I decided to try again and I drew an entirely new map. I reused some of the names, but besides that I changed everything else.

This map is the known world for the people in my book, and contains the 4 main continents/landmasses. In lore, this map was made by those who live in the top left continent. Which is why that continent has more named cities and locations than the others, since the other continents aren’t as well known. The top left continent is also primarily where my story will take place. As the story takes the characters to the other continents, I will draw maps of those individual continents to give them more detail.

This was a lot of fun to work on. As with every previous map I’ve done, I used this as an opportunity to try new things. I learned a bunch, and there’s a lot that I like about this map, and a few things that didn’t turn out quite how I hoped. But that’s alright, it was really fun working on the book while also drawing the map. It was cool to be able to tie characters to different places, and to thrown in little world building elements to the world I was drawing and writing.

Let me know what you all think! If you have any questions I’m happy to chat. Also any suggestions or ideas you think would be cool or helpful for my future maps, I’m always looking for those!