Live Mapping: Fantasy Hand-drawn Part 2

Loopysue · June 11

Join Ralf for tomorrow's live mapping session for a look at the latest Cartographer's Annual issue, which expands his beautiful Fantasy Hand-drawn overland style.

Join the live chat on YouTube here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvANWTdbpHI

Or watch it here on the forum*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvANWTdbpHI

This thread isn't monitored during the show, but is a place where you can chat, ask questions and compare notes.

Loopysue · June 12

30 minutes :)

Royal Scribe · June 12

In today's Live, Ralf mentioned that he might release some free monthly add-on symbols for this style, and he asked for suggestions of what to add. Here are a few ideas:

Natural

Craters
Mesas

Structures

Demi-human settlements (elves, dwarves, orcs, maybe halflings)
Temples -- Greco-Roman style, ziggurats, something like Angkor Wat?
Monuments -- I love the new Egyptian symbols. Maybe something like the moai statues of Easter Island, or monoliths?

Loopysue · June 12

Requests noted in the chat are as follows:

Demihuman cities (elves, dwarves, orcs, halflings...)
Australian Eucalypt trees
Crocodiles

Ricko · June 12

I believe it was Ralf and a few others who already made a post about Mike Schley Overland looking for suggestions (I myself participated in some suggestions), for this beautiful overland style it would be the same as the huge list they made there.

Always more symbols 👹

Wyvern · June 12

Just finished catching-up with today's livestream on replay. Didn't manage to get along in time for it, unfortunately.

I've been mapping a lot with this style over the past week, beyond my Wyvern's Wood map earlier, and as Ralf asked for extra symbol suggestions, these are things that occurred to me that I either needed (so had to hunt for them elsewhere) or felt would be useful as possibilities along the way.

The style really needs some ruins markers to accompany the array of settlement/structure options.
A non-Oriental temple/shrine.
A shipwreck.
A whirlpool.
Options for undersea features more generally would be good - such as settlement markers for merfolk. If there were some ordinary flat-topped hills, they'd work as seamounts too, for instance, but coral reefs would be a nice addition, and although the conifers can be used in a pinch, some "genuine" giant kelp would be handy.
The creature sketches are good now, but it would be useful to have more. Such as, from the "cave art" concept, bears, lions (how can there not be a big cat - yet?!), bison, humanoids (a varicolor option for these could work for different types of fantasy humanoids; actually, varicolor options for all would be useful). Not sure if boars would be needed, given I just used the wolves as boars earlier (and deer for nomadic centaurs)! The sketchy nature of these really works well, so one design will often work for multiple creature types.
Might be interesting to have a skeleton option in the creature sketches as well. And maybe a dragon or two (one of which would obviously be a wyvern 😉), perhaps a hydra and a roc (which would work as an eagle or any other larger bird of prey). And giant ants...
Some more rustic settlement designs - including a single hut for those witches, warlocks and hags to lurk in - and some nomadic-tent/campsite options.
On the terrain side, something to represent farmland would be useful.

I'm sure others will come up with far more as well!