Hi, I am a grade 4 teacher is Alberta, Canada. I am using a lot of RPG elements this year to spice up my Language Arts and Social Studies. I am currently gearing up to start a cartography unit dispersed throughout Art and SS. The aim is to start out in fantasy so we can add a level of depth to the RPG adventure stories we are currently working through. The end game though, is to teach them mapping skills and have them create their own maps of the Regions of Alberta. I just stumbled onto this video and wanted to thank you. It is such a great guide and I already feel more confident in teaching this to my students. I can’t wait to spend time working my way through the rest of your material!
@CoolSpaceMonkeyWithCigar That works, too! Actual geology class though? Not really, that was more like "Memorize these states for the test. Africa is hotter than Europe because the sun hits it harder. Now draw a dumbed down version of Germany like you want to use it as a Minecraft-skin." And then someone actually got a bad grade because they added too much detail.
A tip for drawing rivers: rivers can converge (come together) but they won't diverge (split apart). When making rivers, make sure not to diverge your rivers. Most people looking at the map will realize that something about the rivers seems a bit off even if they don't know why it seems off. Also, because water is governed by gravity, they usually start somewhere at high elevation (mountains, hills) and move toward low areas (marshes, lakes, ocean).
@Reise M. Lukas They can, but those are at flood plains, and once a river becomes a river delta it's sort of no longer a river (it is and it isn't). Whole rivers still won't split into separate rivers because water flows down to the lowest point with gravity and gravity doesn't go off in different directions. Rivers can change course over time though. So if a section of the river gets gouged out (from perhaps a flood exerting more pressure on a river bank than usual), the river might expand in that direction, especially if it also gouges out the river bed over there. The river might then head off in that direction a bit, which is how rivers change course, but it won't diverge into two separate rivers because the point where it starts to split just gets "eaten up" by the rest pf the river.
Although what you say is completely true he didn't draw diverging rivers. At 3:00 it's showing a river delta and at 3:23 a river ending at the coastline.
J.R.R.Tolkien didn't draw the middle earth map's (or rather, the ones he did draw were rubbish apparently). All the famous/published middle earth maps were actually drawn by his son Christopher Tolkien, after listening to his fathers stories growing up.
He did a lot of rough sketches of maps that were never intended to be a final product - just sort of laying out the general shape of the world and the key locations while he was working on the story. It was less common to include maps in stories in those days, so to Tolkien they were largely storytelling guides and ways to keep his story straight - something which Christopher was apparently VERY strict on as a child! I remember reading somewhere about how Tolkien used to tell early versions of the stories to Christopher and his brother, and whenever a small detail changed, Christopher would interrupt and say "but LAST time you said...", and Tolkien would make a note of it. Eventually, Christopher was put in charge of reconciling the various iterations of the maps into finalised versions. JRR's original illustrations survive in many different editions of the books, and from the map in The Hobbit it's clear that he was fully capable of drawing beautiful maps, but they were just less of a concern to him than the writing and the linguistics. Plus he kept changing his mind, so getting Christopher, who had been with the books all throughout their shaping, to complete the finalised versions made perfect sense.
You have made me so happy drawing these maps! I use to draw maps just like the when I was a young teen. Man, the nostalgia is overpowering. I just looked up my old DM, the man who introduced me to D&D 30 years ago, and he's still in town. Looks like I'm going to have to start up a new campaign with an old friend!
Holy cow I wish I had come across this video sooner. One day I'm hoping to write my own novel, but I've always struggled with the world-building part, and I feel like having a map is also very nice for your audience to give them an idea of how your world looks. I've sadly never been too good at drawing, but the icon style at the start is something that even I can do!
Just made my first map yesterday, used rice as outlay and it worked really great :D Colored the paper with coffee, used some old looking stamps on the sites and it just looks soo nice. Now with your tips, my next map is going to look even better!
I just want to say, that you have wonderful content. I may not watch all you videos, but as an artist I would like to say that I am glad there us someone out there who dedicates time to showing people who are not artists, how to make his like this. You really do deserve more views.
As a teen I became enamored in how the maps were drawn for Lord of the Rings and later, the Middle-earth RPG. They were detailed yet easy to read and understand. I've been using those patterns ever since. Awesome stuff, sir.
This video is awesome! I had no idea where to even start with making a fun map like this, and this makes it so approachable. Really well done. I’m delighted I found it.
I spend the whole day searching for some cool map maker and ended her. I am really glad I haven't found a good site for making maps because this is going to be fun! It's the most helpful thing I found about creation of fantasy maps today. Thanks a lot! I've already tried some Tolkien icons and even though I can't draw they looked sooo cool! So tomorrow I'll make a whole map. Thanks a lot again! This really helped me ^-^
This is really cool! I always forget how simple artists think, and how much you can archieve with just a few circles, lines and triangles. Thanks for the video, gonna try to use this, for my stories :D
I love these! The simple style looks like something you'd get when a non-cartographer in a smaller town or something copies from a more detailed map. Shows people how to get around, but without the flourishes a professional might be tempted to add to the drawings.
Wow! I'm really impressed by this! As an artist I'm used to always drawing everything extremely detailed and realistic. It's somehow difficult for me to draw stuff in a simple way and I really love the look of this! I would probably spend hours to draw every single tree with lots of details and never actually finish my map. I have to give this a try!
Oh wow, how cool is that! Thank you for sharing your experience with us 😊I really love cartography and your style is very nice to the eyes and very informative.
Papermate Flair Pens are quite good for the low price & easy to find. Also love Sakura Pigma Micron pens in all sizes. Favorite gel pen is Uniball Signo in White.
these videos are the best tutorials on map drawing for me. it makes a lot of fun to draw this way. I would like to see how you are drawing a dungeon with all these thingies there like traps, tables, books and so on - in your special style of drawing.
My only little quibble with the Icon style map was the swamps, TBH it looked like plains to me. I might have used cat tails or similar simple but iconic swamp flora for that instead (albeit you could run into issues with the trees then, definitely something to think about). Otherwise it was pretty fantastic.
Wow! Incredibly helpful video. Thank you so much for taking the time to put this together. I feel like I might actually have a shot at making a map now!
Thanks for your videos. Super easy to draw all you could have in your mind. I'm recovering old sensations, with D&D games I mean, and involving my kids, and with this kind of maps, it's easier. Thanks again guy!
I start out planning using the icon style then eventually recreate it in a more detailed version if it is warranted. I sadly don’t get many chances because I mostly just do one shots that don’t last long enough to warrant more detailed maps.
I make map notes for my trips exploring offroad Utah this inspires to create something a bit more on the explorer side. It is also quicker to decipher at a glance. Yours's captures an old feel as if written with a quill, awesome idea as I use a mechanical pencil which appears very not adventure inspiring. Thank you.
Loved this video. My drawing skills are actually pretty decent, but until this popped up in my feed, was something I've never even thought of doing. Thanks for making this, you're doing great work. 🖤🖤🖤
Thanks for the videos. I've just started playing around with maps and have found your videos to be extremely helpful in breaking down and making it very approachable!
Amazing, I love it already at the first time watching it, I am not really good with drawing but seeing your map makes me have more confident and like find a unique style that I want to learn.
I don't game so I'm not sure what I will use this for in my bullet journal but I love the way your maps turn out! Looks good even if you don't know how to draw, like myself.
I like adding color to my maps with colored pencils. You can add two tones of brown for the mountains with one dark and one light to give contrast. Also using pastels work with covering large areas but you need to spray it with workable fixative to prevent the color from smudging.
I really appreciate your calm yet enthusiastic tone! You teach but not harangue! Please continue to do more of these! How would you draw your icons for parts of your map that are more inspired by the Mid East or the Far East than "European" Fantasy?
I'm not an artist so this is off the top of my head. Half of the buildings will all look the same: they have a horizontal line where the ground is and vertical lines for walls. Since they're just icons, they need to remain simple. So where you can get more unique (besides width and height of the buildings) is the roof. This leads me to think the area to focus on is the roof/top part of the building icon. For example, traditional Japanese buildings had those roofs that are curved inward. For some areas of the middle east, you could have roofs that are pointed bulbs. Keep in mind that houses would have different roofs than what I'm mentioning here. So these are for maybe a city icon, and if you wanted a small town maybe draw a house instead. I would recommend Googling traditional buildings from an area and try to stick to general shapes since a map icon wouldn't be overly detailed.
omg i just found this, because i'm trying to come up with a little world of my own. i already have layout and stuff in my head, but drawing a map seemed so unapproachable... the icon style made it WAY easier, so thank you for showing it like this!! In the future, maybe i'll consider trying to create something more detailed and bigger? maybe i'll just commission someone too, lol. But yeah, just wanted to say thanks, really nice video and super cool dude :)
Thanks! I am making a map for a video game. The map is travel mode prior to switching to a 2d scroller adventure mode. I plan to use a vector program to draw the world and use a paint program to color in the world and add special effects like fog, lava or mystical fairy dust. I like the naps from the game Heroes of Might and Magic series but the map icons are too perfect for what I am aiming for, Your video is a big help.
Love it ! very inspirating, social, enthusiastic, beautiful and helping ! Super job ! J'adore, ton style est très inspirant, tu fédères bien les gens et les motive, très bon esprit, talentueux et accessible !
You can't believe how much more interesting my games with my family have gotten thanks to this video. I need to see if you have any videos for battle maps and Dungeons now.
The mark of an "artist".... every one of the icons looks identical to the next/last... THIS is so very hard for those of us with limited artistic ability and what truly makes the maps look so damn good!
@ 14:20 that could be like a hidden message in Morse code, just a neat idea if you had a map and everything looked normal, but the desert was actually a full on letter
That's an awesome idea! Or even labeling stuff with other languages that the players don't know. Like, what's up with that wizard's tower written in Abyssal?
I'm writing a fantasy novel right now for a National writing contest. This video is really helpful to accomplish my map. Thanks a lot. I really wish that this guy is my neighbor.
Thanks for the help. Maps look great man!!! I’m. Trying to do the more detailed Tolkien style with red and black on some homemade t rough like paper I found. Doing borders of paper with lines and fancy corners really makes it come together and gives it more fantastic. Love your maps can’t wait to show you the one me and my 6 year old loves to do. We do it together father and son. It’s my favorite time I have. 👍👍🙏😎
Wow, at first I was like meh, but then I look at the bar and the video is over. You completely hypnotised me with your work. Keep it up, you're doing great.
I'm saving this and doing it, not for a dnd map or something though, I wanna get some really old looking kinda torn up yellow paper and then make a Tolkien style map on it then turn it into a scroll to portray on my gaming area, it also seems like a fairly easy thing to make someone would probably gladly buy for like 50 dollars...
Absolutely great stuff, man. Liking your laidback style and love for the drawing. Still have a problem to not think of Lionel Messi as a drawing teacher after his football days have gone when I see you. ;-))
Hi! Thanks for your videos and tips. I'd like to draw a more scifi or futuristic map, and although many of your advices still work, I lack the touch to make it look interesting. Could you give me any advice?
Hmm. Maybe check out the city making map? Otherwise I do think the same lesson applies, you'll just have to do some extra work on figuring out how to draw icons that work for you. Maybe instead of little medieval towns you could draw sky scrapers? Instead of trees there are oil pumps. Or there are asteroid craters and moon dome habitats. Just remember to keep it simple, like what's the most basic symbol that can represent those things. Fill up the map with several different icons/symbols and I promise it'll look cool!
Hi, thanks for your sharings.. I think that one of the major keys here is to go S L O W. Yeah, the speeded up vid gives the impression that this is fast drawn, but don't be fooled like I was (I watched this silently so maybe it's said in the comments) When you t a k e y o u r t i m e, then all the things get more cohesion repeatability and this fits together. But even a pro like JP is making this with patience as the real speed videos shows. That was a huge key for me. Thanks JP for your word.
Hi, I am a grade 4 teacher is Alberta, Canada. I am using a lot of RPG elements this year to spice up my Language Arts and Social Studies. I am currently gearing up to start a cartography unit dispersed throughout Art and SS. The aim is to start out in fantasy so we can add a level of depth to the RPG adventure stories we are currently working through. The end game though, is to teach them mapping skills and have them create their own maps of the Regions of Alberta.
I just stumbled onto this video and wanted to thank you. It is such a great guide and I already feel more confident in teaching this to my students. I can’t wait to spend time working my way through the rest of your material!
How did it go?
@CoolSpaceMonkeyWithCigar That works, too! Actual geology class though? Not really, that was more like "Memorize these states for the test. Africa is hotter than Europe because the sun hits it harder. Now draw a dumbed down version of Germany like you want to use it as a Minecraft-skin." And then someone actually got a bad grade because they added too much detail.
@Umbranoctis I learned all mine from fantasy books
hows it going? :D
That sounds awesome. If you tried to do that here in America they'd probably try to throw you in jail :(
A tip for drawing rivers: rivers can converge (come together) but they won't diverge (split apart). When making rivers, make sure not to diverge your rivers. Most people looking at the map will realize that something about the rivers seems a bit off even if they don't know why it seems off.
Also, because water is governed by gravity, they usually start somewhere at high elevation (mountains, hills) and move toward low areas (marshes, lakes, ocean).
@Reise M. Lukas They can, but those are at flood plains, and once a river becomes a river delta it's sort of no longer a river (it is and it isn't). Whole rivers still won't split into separate rivers because water flows down to the lowest point with gravity and gravity doesn't go off in different directions.
Rivers can change course over time though. So if a section of the river gets gouged out (from perhaps a flood exerting more pressure on a river bank than usual), the river might expand in that direction, especially if it also gouges out the river bed over there. The river might then head off in that direction a bit, which is how rivers change course, but it won't diverge into two separate rivers because the point where it starts to split just gets "eaten up" by the rest pf the river.
Don't they diverge in deltas?
@Daniel R. Aye, I wasn't critiquing any part of the video, I was just adding a tip in the comments that didn't get covered in the video. 👍
Although what you say is completely true he didn't draw diverging rivers. At 3:00 it's showing a river delta and at 3:23 a river ending at the coastline.
I love this guy, he's really enthusiastic, yet doesn't shout and has a really nice soothing voice, paired with great videos
villain Bill from... Kill Bill doesn't raise his voice in the film and he's all the more sinister because of it.
The fact that he shows excitement without yelling is the reason I stayed.
Why does he remind me of Bob Ross tho
U should see morgz
J.R.R.Tolkien didn't draw the middle earth map's (or rather, the ones he did draw were rubbish apparently). All the famous/published middle earth maps were actually drawn by his son Christopher Tolkien, after listening to his fathers stories growing up.
He did a lot of rough sketches of maps that were never intended to be a final product - just sort of laying out the general shape of the world and the key locations while he was working on the story. It was less common to include maps in stories in those days, so to Tolkien they were largely storytelling guides and ways to keep his story straight - something which Christopher was apparently VERY strict on as a child! I remember reading somewhere about how Tolkien used to tell early versions of the stories to Christopher and his brother, and whenever a small detail changed, Christopher would interrupt and say "but LAST time you said...", and Tolkien would make a note of it. Eventually, Christopher was put in charge of reconciling the various iterations of the maps into finalised versions.
JRR's original illustrations survive in many different editions of the books, and from the map in The Hobbit it's clear that he was fully capable of drawing beautiful maps, but they were just less of a concern to him than the writing and the linguistics. Plus he kept changing his mind, so getting Christopher, who had been with the books all throughout their shaping, to complete the finalised versions made perfect sense.
A rare example of a son actually respecting his father's work
Love that 😭🫶🏻
@shakescan ah that makes sense. Thank you
The maps done for Middle Earth Roleplaying modules are really great also (Iron Crown Enterprises).
You have made me so happy drawing these maps! I use to draw maps just like the when I was a young teen. Man, the nostalgia is overpowering. I just looked up my old DM, the man who introduced me to D&D 30 years ago, and he's still in town. Looks like I'm going to have to start up a new campaign with an old friend!
Holy cow I wish I had come across this video sooner. One day I'm hoping to write my own novel, but I've always struggled with the world-building part, and I feel like having a map is also very nice for your audience to give them an idea of how your world looks. I've sadly never been too good at drawing, but the icon style at the start is something that even I can do!
Just made my first map yesterday, used rice as outlay and it worked really great :D
Colored the paper with coffee, used some old looking stamps on the sites and it just looks soo nice.
Now with your tips, my next map is going to look even better!
i also soaked my paper in coffee and whether it's for maps, scrolls, cyphers or whatever it just gives it the perfect look!
I just want to say, that you have wonderful content. I may not watch all you videos, but as an artist I would like to say that I am glad there us someone out there who dedicates time to showing people who are not artists, how to make his like this. You really do deserve more views.
As a teen I became enamored in how the maps were drawn for Lord of the Rings and later, the Middle-earth RPG. They were detailed yet easy to read and understand. I've been using those patterns ever since. Awesome stuff, sir.
Very well done! You are honestly like the Art Ross of fantasy world map buiding :)
This video is awesome! I had no idea where to even start with making a fun map like this, and this makes it so approachable. Really well done. I’m delighted I found it.
Love this video! We just started to draw maps from the book the Ickabog in class. Can't wait to show my students this :)
This is how you do a wonderful tutorial that covers and shows so many things. Just wonderful.
It's really relaxing to watch someone drawing fantasy maps, thank you.
Icon Map 2:49
Icon guide 6:26
Tolkien-style Map 10:07
Tolkien-style Guide 17:28
I spend the whole day searching for some cool map maker and ended her. I am really glad I haven't found a good site for making maps because this is going to be fun! It's the most helpful thing I found about creation of fantasy maps today. Thanks a lot! I've already tried some Tolkien icons and even though I can't draw they looked sooo cool! So tomorrow I'll make a whole map. Thanks a lot again! This really helped me ^-^
what did she do to you?
I want to see the result! I am still practicing the icons...
I think this was one of the best drawing tutorials for maps. It has really motivated me to do something for D&D or a fantasy story ❤
This is really cool! I always forget how simple artists think, and how much you can archieve with just a few circles, lines and triangles. Thanks for the video, gonna try to use this, for my stories :D
I love these! The simple style looks like something you'd get when a non-cartographer in a smaller town or something copies from a more detailed map. Shows people how to get around, but without the flourishes a professional might be tempted to add to the drawings.
Hands down best map video I have seen! So many great examples and it's still a concise video not overly long. Great job!
Wow! I'm really impressed by this! As an artist I'm used to always drawing everything extremely detailed and realistic. It's somehow difficult for me to draw stuff in a simple way and I really love the look of this! I would probably spend hours to draw every single tree with lots of details and never actually finish my map. I have to give this a try!
Thanks for showing this! I'm not into role playing but I have a small interest in world building. Drawing fantasy maps is stimulating and fun.
Thank you sir. Currently starting to prep a Mastadon campaign and you just gave me my map technique.
Oh wow, how cool is that! Thank you for sharing your experience with us 😊I really love cartography and your style is very nice to the eyes and very informative.
Papermate Flair Pens are quite good for the low price & easy to find.
Also love Sakura Pigma Micron pens in all sizes. Favorite gel pen is Uniball Signo in White.
these videos are the best tutorials on map drawing for me. it makes a lot of fun to draw this way. I would like to see how you are drawing a dungeon with all these thingies there like traps, tables, books and so on - in your special style of drawing.
My only little quibble with the Icon style map was the swamps, TBH it looked like plains to me. I might have used cat tails or similar simple but iconic swamp flora for that instead (albeit you could run into issues with the trees then, definitely something to think about). Otherwise it was pretty fantastic.
Those remind me of the old version books of Chronicles of the Dragonlance, I love those maps
Wow! Incredibly helpful video. Thank you so much for taking the time to put this together. I feel like I might actually have a shot at making a map now!
Thanks for your videos. Super easy to draw all you could have in your mind. I'm recovering old sensations, with D&D games I mean, and involving my kids, and with this kind of maps, it's easier. Thanks again guy!
so simple but so effective! Great video!
I start out planning using the icon style then eventually recreate it in a more detailed version if it is warranted. I sadly don’t get many chances because I mostly just do one shots that don’t last long enough to warrant more detailed maps.
I make map notes for my trips exploring offroad Utah this inspires to create something a bit more on the explorer side. It is also quicker to decipher at a glance. Yours's captures an old feel as if written with a quill, awesome idea as I use a mechanical pencil which appears very not adventure inspiring. Thank you.
Loved this video. My drawing skills are actually pretty decent, but until this popped up in my feed, was something I've never even thought of doing. Thanks for making this, you're doing great work. 🖤🖤🖤
Thanks for the videos. I've just started playing around with maps and have found your videos to be extremely helpful in breaking down and making it very approachable!
Amazing, I love it already at the first time watching it, I am not really good with drawing but seeing your map makes me have more confident and like find a unique style that I want to learn.
Amazing, you've inspired me to create my own drawings. Do you have any icon tips for creating modern day cities?
Keep it simple and geometric. Search for illustrated maps of actual cities and see how other artists tackle it. Good luck
I don't game so I'm not sure what I will use this for in my bullet journal but I love the way your maps turn out!
Looks good even if you don't know how to draw, like myself.
This is a fantastic video. I'm making a video game and have finished the story. I'm going for a 2D paper aesthetic. Thank you so much for this.
Great Job, I love your Maps... and all that iconic things...
I like adding color to my maps with colored pencils. You can add two tones of brown for the mountains with one dark and one light to give contrast. Also using pastels work with covering large areas but you need to spray it with workable fixative to prevent the color from smudging.
Loved this whole video. My 11yr old son is hyped about RPG map making. Thank you for this tutorial.
Also, awesome FTL shirt!
I really appreciate your calm yet enthusiastic tone! You teach but not harangue! Please continue to do more of these! How would you draw your icons for parts of your map that are more inspired by the Mid East or the Far East than "European" Fantasy?
I'm not an artist so this is off the top of my head. Half of the buildings will all look the same: they have a horizontal line where the ground is and vertical lines for walls. Since they're just icons, they need to remain simple. So where you can get more unique (besides width and height of the buildings) is the roof. This leads me to think the area to focus on is the roof/top part of the building icon. For example, traditional Japanese buildings had those roofs that are curved inward. For some areas of the middle east, you could have roofs that are pointed bulbs. Keep in mind that houses would have different roofs than what I'm mentioning here. So these are for maybe a city icon, and if you wanted a small town maybe draw a house instead. I would recommend Googling traditional buildings from an area and try to stick to general shapes since a map icon wouldn't be overly detailed.
One of the best tutorial about icon styles i ever seen. Just huge thank you.
omg i just found this, because i'm trying to come up with a little world of my own. i already have layout and stuff in my head, but drawing a map seemed so unapproachable... the icon style made it WAY easier, so thank you for showing it like this!!
In the future, maybe i'll consider trying to create something more detailed and bigger? maybe i'll just commission someone too, lol.
But yeah, just wanted to say thanks, really nice video and super cool dude :)
I'm the same way. The world I've created is also gonna be used for a DnD campaign and me and the players love maps.
Same
Great video and instructions! your enthusiasm is contagious, I love that you speak with your hands! Thank you a bunch!
Really love your videos! Great help for any skill level.
Thanks! I am making a map for a video game. The map is travel mode prior to switching to a 2d scroller adventure mode. I plan to use a vector program to draw the world and use a paint program to color in the world and add special effects like fog, lava or mystical fairy dust. I like the naps from the game Heroes of Might and Magic series but the map icons are too perfect for what I am aiming for, Your video is a big help.
Really awesome man. I’ve never seen your channel before but you’ve earned an easy sub from me. Great stuff.
Totally agree with this style!!!
I own many of these types of maps, but my first WAS of Tolkien's "Middle Earth."
Great video!!!
Got the perfect swampy forest made for my green hag plot from following your examples. Thanks! :)
I'm doing my own fantasy map right now and watching your tips. Thank you
Love it ! very inspirating, social, enthusiastic, beautiful and helping ! Super job !
J'adore, ton style est très inspirant, tu fédères bien les gens et les motive, très bon esprit, talentueux et accessible !
You can't believe how much more interesting my games with my family have gotten thanks to this video. I need to see if you have any videos for battle maps and Dungeons now.
I do :)
Awesome work, reminds me a lot of Kingdom of Loathing and its derivatives.
Fabulous! Thanks for sharing this.
The shade of paper and the hollow circles for trees absolutely breaks the blue light filter. I thought you were using white ink! Also cool maps
12:45 - Or as my teacher used to call them, musical note hills. Because if you flip them sideways, they look like backwards musical notes.
Love your energy! Thanks for the video. really helpful 🙂
Great, simple drawing tutorial for beginners that can be applied to so many other types of drawing than maps. Well done sir
Thanks for this video. I can’t wait to try it out myself!
The mark of an "artist".... every one of the icons looks identical to the next/last... THIS is so very hard for those of us with limited artistic ability and what truly makes the maps look so damn good!
It's just a matter of slowing down a little! It also helps to plan out in pencil first.
His videos are awesome! I wish I still had friends to game with! I would totally use a bunch of his techniques!
Thank you for the great tutorial! I want to try it :)
@ 14:20 that could be like a hidden message in Morse code, just a neat idea if you had a map and everything looked normal, but the desert was actually a full on letter
That's an awesome idea! Or even labeling stuff with other languages that the players don't know. Like, what's up with that wizard's tower written in Abyssal?
I'm writing a fantasy novel right now for a National writing contest. This video is really helpful to accomplish my map. Thanks a lot. I really wish that this guy is my neighbor.
Thanks for the help. Maps look great man!!! I’m. Trying to do the more detailed Tolkien style with red and black on some homemade t rough like paper I found. Doing borders of paper with lines and fancy corners really makes it come together and gives it more fantastic. Love your maps can’t wait to show you the one me and my 6 year old loves to do. We do it together father and son. It’s my favorite time I have. 👍👍🙏😎
Thankyou I do everything by hand cause I suck with tech and this really helps. Your amazing and keep doing what your doing
I can't wait to try it. Thank you so much!
Awesome, great artwork!
For a desert I draw a simple cow skull and ribs giving the idea of bones bleached in the sun, or if its sahara style desert I draw simple wavy dunes.
thanks a lot for this, it really helped me get started and to draw better details!
Wow, at first I was like meh, but then I look at the bar and the video is over. You completely hypnotised me with your work. Keep it up, you're doing great.
amazing video, very inspiring ! Tks
И вроде бы ничего особенного , но очень красиво 😍
this is a lovely video to watch even when you are not even considering drawing a fantasy map. Thanks algorithm.
I'm saving this and doing it, not for a dnd map or something though, I wanna get some really old looking kinda torn up yellow paper and then make a Tolkien style map on it then turn it into a scroll to portray on my gaming area, it also seems like a fairly easy thing to make someone would probably gladly buy for like 50 dollars...
Very helpful! Thank you for this video!
super easy!super simple!
so pretty😍
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Wow man, what a fun video! I like your energy :)
Absolutely fantastic video.
both version of the map are beautiful 0.0
Awesome video! I’m inspired! Thank you!
I always enjoyed drawing fantasy maps as a kid. Maybe I should start doing it again :)
Yes you should :)
Great video, they look great. By the way, Tolkein is pronounced Toll kin, like toll booth,
Absolutely great stuff, man. Liking your laidback style and love for the drawing.
Still have a problem to not think of Lionel Messi as a drawing teacher after his football days have gone when I see you. ;-))
Thanks, this is really good and easy-to-follow advices.
This video has been really helpful and know I actually know where to start and why.
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Hi! Thanks for your videos and tips. I'd like to draw a more scifi or futuristic map, and although many of your advices still work, I lack the touch to make it look interesting. Could you give me any advice?
Hmm. Maybe check out the city making map? Otherwise I do think the same lesson applies, you'll just have to do some extra work on figuring out how to draw icons that work for you. Maybe instead of little medieval towns you could draw sky scrapers? Instead of trees there are oil pumps. Or there are asteroid craters and moon dome habitats. Just remember to keep it simple, like what's the most basic symbol that can represent those things. Fill up the map with several different icons/symbols and I promise it'll look cool!
Would love to see a Chinese or Japanese fantasy style
Thanks this will really help for my D&D campaign
Thank you for the video! May I ask what pen are you using?
Molto interessante, grazie delle informazioni 👍✨
Loved the video 🙌🏻 i‘m such a huge tolkien fan!
Brilliant! Thank you.
Hi, thanks for your sharings..
I think that one of the major keys here is to go S L O W.
Yeah, the speeded up vid gives the impression that this is fast drawn, but don't be fooled like I was (I watched this silently so maybe it's said in the comments)
When you t a k e y o u r t i m e, then all the things get more cohesion repeatability and this fits together.
But even a pro like JP is making this with patience as the real speed videos shows.
That was a huge key for me.
Thanks JP for your word.
i love your style. keep on!
You have a very soothing voice and have a very concise way of teaching. I love it.
Thank you Sir for this fantastic video!