Category: Fantasy Mapmaking

  • Learn to Make Parchment in GIMP

    Learn to Make Parchment in GIMP

    For those of you interested in taking your finished map to the next level, I’ve written a detailed tutorial on how I make things look like parchment. This is the technique I used to make my website banner, among other things. I hope it proves useful to you.

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  • New eBook on Fantasy Mapmaking

    New eBook on Fantasy Mapmaking

    If you’re writing a fantasy novel but don’t know how to draw the map, this is the book for you!  After more than a year of work, I’ve published a Kindle eBook called How to Make a Fantasy Map: A Writer’s Guide to Otherworldly Cartography. Learn how to roughen a simple shape into a fully-formed…

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  • Making a Fantasy Map: Text Labels

    Making a Fantasy Map: Text Labels

    If you want to learn how to make a map in more detail—or you’d like to make one but can’t due to Affinity’s pricetag—then take a look at my new eBook: How to Make a Fantasy Map: A Writer’s Guide to Otherworldly Cartography. You’ll learn more advanced techniques for making a fantasy map (including how…

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  • Making a Fantasy Map: Settlements

    Making a Fantasy Map: Settlements

    If you want to learn how to make a map in more detail—or you’d like to make one but can’t due to Affinity’s pricetag—then take a look at my new eBook: How to Make a Fantasy Map: A Writer’s Guide to Otherworldly Cartography. You’ll learn more advanced techniques for making a fantasy map (including how…

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  • Making a Fantasy Map: Forests

    Making a Fantasy Map: Forests

    If you want to learn how to make a map in more detail—or you’d like to make one but can’t due to Affinity’s pricetag—then take a look at my new eBook: How to Make a Fantasy Map: A Writer’s Guide to Otherworldly Cartography. You’ll learn more advanced techniques for making a fantasy map (including how…

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  • Making a Fantasy Map: Rivers

    Making a Fantasy Map: Rivers

    Now that we’ve drawn a continent with mountains, it’s time to give it some rivers.  But before we begin I’d like to mention that I’ve written a book on the subject of making fantasy maps. If you want to learn how to make a map in more detail—or you’d like to make one but can’t…

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  • Making a Fantasy Map: Mountain Ranges

    Making a Fantasy Map: Mountain Ranges

    If you want to learn how to make a map in more detail—or you’d like to make one but can’t due to Affinity’s pricetag—then take a look at my new eBook: How to Make a Fantasy Map: A Writer’s Guide to Otherworldly Cartography. You’ll learn more advanced techniques for making a fantasy map (including how…

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  • Making a Fantasy Map: Drawing Coastlines

    Making a Fantasy Map: Drawing Coastlines

    If you want to learn how to make a map in more detail—or you’d like to make one but can’t due to Affinity’s pricetag—then take a look at my new eBook: How to Make a Fantasy Map: A Writer’s Guide to Otherworldly Cartography. You’ll learn more advanced techniques for making a fantasy map (including how…

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  • Making a Fantasy Map: Introduction

    Making a Fantasy Map: Introduction

    If you want to learn how to make a map in more detail—or you’d like to make one but can’t due to Affinity’s pricetag—then take a look at my new eBook: How to Make a Fantasy Map: A Writer’s Guide to Otherworldly Cartography. You’ll learn more advanced techniques for making a fantasy map, and you’ll…

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