#making maps

[thecrazyworldbuilder]

A tutorial on a (bit cheating) way of creating fictional maps.

Open your editing software (RECOMMENDING Krita, since it's free and it's very good).

Step 1: Google "X country silhouette" and copy it.

Paste it onto the canvas.

Step 2: Separate the silhouette from the background you copied with it! You can do that by using magic wand selection tool or by making a gradient map with black on 49,9% and transparent on 50% on the slider.

Step 3: Repeat several times with numerous countries and/or islands, cities, municipalities, communes, continents et cetera.

Step 4: Combine, mesh, stretch, rotate, mirror - go ham, make it work.

Step 5: Erase and add.

Step 6: Have your map outline ready, copy/paste it several times in the same doc on different layers and edit in different ways like biomes, kingdoms, mountains and other.

Step Mountains+: To figure out mountains, make another layer on the doc and do something like this:

-and then in every polygon you add an arrow.

Where arrows meet or transfer onto continents, add mountains.

Color the sea with a couple layers of depth and you're done :D

#cartography #making maps #fantasy world #making fantasy maps #fantasy worldbuilding #worldbuilding map #map #maps

[abuddyforeveryseason]

This is the Buddy for April 19th. I guess he, like me, has a tough weekend ahead of him.

What's up with his hair, you ask? It's kind of like the Buddy for July 12th, last year, says you? Looks a bit like an island, you say?

Well, let me explain. I took this public domain picture of a cow:

See the pattern? I then isolated it and turned colored it black:

And the result does look like a something you'd see in a fantasy novel. In fact, let's see what we can do with that...

See? Fun, right? Sure, it's not a perfect cut, and I'm not sure I'd call the geography there realistic - but you can always say some evil wizard or god moved the mountains around in the distant past or something.

I'm not that into fantasy. But I'm watching Dimension 20 and it's not half bad. I'm more of a comedy guy anyhow.

But, really, making maps is the most fun part of writing fantasy. Probably because it's such an unemotional aspect of the story - seeing the map and imagining all the exciting adventures therein is more interesting that reading about the dull, angsty and repetitive description of a long road trip.

Of course, the maps have the same issues the books have. Bad fantasy maps are a bit like bad fantasy stories - they look cool, but make no sense when you take a closer look at them. Not just from a geography perspective, but also from a social studies sense - why would they build a city in the middle of the desert? Why do they need to take a bandit-infested country road if there's a safer, shorter path in another direction?

Then again, there's a lot I don't understand about fantasy. Why do dragons hoard treasure? They don't go shopping, after all. It'd make sense if they were just interested in beautiful jewels and carefully-made pieces, but they're usually just laying atop a giant pile of boring gold pieces.

#map #maps #cartography #making maps #fantasy #fantasy map #fantasy maps #dimension 20 #dragon #cow #inkscape #dungeons and dragons #ab4es #drawing #public domain images

[rains-inky-mind]

Anyone have any good recommendations (sites/apps) for creating fantasy maps? It would be a huge help.

#rain posts #writeblr #writer #rain talks #maps #making maps

[tinymoves]

the extent that i would be at emo night at sneaky dees every single weekend is crazy. you would think i was canadian.

#this map doesn’t really make any sense but i don’t care

[spidergvven]

queerness under apartheid

#free palestine #queering the map #i think of this everytime someone opens their stupid mouth to say 'but palestinians are homophobic' as if that justifies ethnic cleansing #it makes me so angry and so heartbroken

[pachix]

https://www.geoguessr.com/vgp/3007

#map quiz #europe map quiz #tumblr survey #europe quiz #please don't make me regret putting vanilla extract as show results #i did this because i saw USA states one #knowing my luck this just might get like 3 notes while you can still anwser survey

[druid-for-hire]

[images ID: three images of a comic titled "one must imagine sisyphus happy" by druid-for-hire. it is a visual narrative beginning with someone with wrist pain (depicted by bright orange nerves) working at a drafting table. the reader is shown the same wrist as the person uses it for many everyday tasks such as carrying a grocery basket, pushing elevator buttons, typing, and doing dishes, until the pain dissolves all the panels into chaos. the person then performs several physical therapy exercises until the pain subsides. they sit back down at a desk with their laptop, sigh, and begin typing. a small spark of pain reappears. end id]

a fun little piece i made during the semester and submitted into our school comic anthology! (which you can buy at the Static Fish table at MoCCAFest in NYC ;] ). it's about artists and injury

#comic art #comics #original comic #chronic pain #carpal tunnel #tendonitis #my art #original #edit: what a delightful surprise to see this take off #this was made for class on very low fuel and very few thoughts and late at night and exhausted #the prompt was just a wordless narrative essay. three pages. and i had nothing and no ideas #and my head hurt and i was too tired to think about doing any of the like. research and mind mapping and ideating i'd do otherwise #but my arm hurt #so i decided to do a thing about arm hurty #i'm surprised to see so many people finding it resonating with them #but then again i shouldn't be. the universal lies in the specific #i should make more things about smaller stuff

[you-need-not-apply]

THIS

THIS IS WHAT MAKES TUMBLR BEAUTIFUL

This is a 19K reblog post, thats less then 5K reblogs there

You can see where one person reblogged it and their mutuals then did too

The original post looks like a city, you could make maps from this

Lets add more:

YOU CAN'T ZOOM OUT ANYMORE

Only 6K here out of 19K, just the roads, the trails... you can see how people shared this post and the communities it found, wether small or large

My laptop couldn't take anymore, but here, here is 10K out of 19K...

the original post is in the bottom right hand corner

this is what makes tumblr beautiful

#tumblr #hellsite #hellsite (affectionate) #hellsite my beloved #pretty #reblog #reblog map #what makes tumblr beautiful #beautiful #maps #map

[dyketennant]

as someone who has obviously done extensive research on the topic i would like to present to you all...dyketennant's "which david tennant character are you" uquiz

#it's almost 3am now and i started this at around 10-11pm i think so if this sucks. im sorry #also before you say 'what about x character' listen there's only so many i can add you guys #12 was the easiest number for me to work with i had to make some choices #yes i was influenced by my own bias that's inevitable #toyed with the idea of adding kilgrave but could not stomach the guilt of anyone actually getting him as their result #david tennant #good omens #doctor who #blackpool #takin over the asylum #bbc staged #around the world in 80 days #hamlet 2009 #fright night 2011 #broadchurch #la without a map #queues to watch out for

[rookflower]

starting a petition to end this dichotomy in warrior cats designs forever

#to be clear individual designs are not the issue obviously it's just how prevalent it is as a trend #it's less common nowadays but i still see people consistently do this especially for map designs and stuff #i think the only female characters people primarily draw like the latter are yellowfang and mapleshade #meanwhile with toms you got tigerstar(s) bramblestar lionblaze lionheart brokenstar pinestar goosefeather...... #then if you make the example a wee bit softer-expressioned cloudtail tree shadowsight oakheart crookedstar graystripe purdy.... #the girl cat here could be hollyleaf goldenflower feathertail silverstream cinderpelt squirrelflight nightcloud tawnypelt ferncloud daisy #bristlefrost sunbeam ivypool turtle tail honeyfern cinderheart poppyfrost brightheart mothwing willowshine sparkpelt frecklewish.......... #you get it.

[thecrazyworldbuilder]

Hey so I just had an idea?

Let's say you're making a world map. Make it ONE huge supercontinent.

Break the supercontinent with lines.

Simulate the continental drift by moving the parts away from each other.

#Making maps #Cartography #fantasy cartography #worldbuilding #fantasy worldbuilding #fantasy world #fantasy #dnd #worldbuilding tips #world creation #Map making #worldbuilding ideas

[abuddyforeveryseason]

This is the Buddy for June 12th. The big special thing about it is the hair wasn't drawn normally, but procedually generated by an algorithm.

It's not exactly artificial intelligence, but it's not something I made. The credit should go to the person who developed the algorithm.

Same thing goes, for instance,for this map:

I can't really draw an island in a way that doesn't look fake. I used to just close my eyes and move the stylus in random directions, then try and fix it later, but even that didn't look good.

I get that the algorithm is doing the work for me. And on one hand, I hate AI-generated art because it's basically stealing assets from authors without paying or crediting them (and at the same time costing these very artists paying jobs). On the other hand, as simplistic at Buddy's hair, or the map, are, they're also computer generated, though nobody would call that AI.

It's hard to figure out where to draw the line.

#Map #Maps #Cartography #Making Maps #algorithms #Art #AI Art #Procedural Generation #AB4ES

[mienar]

remnants of where we have been

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#artists on tumblr #animated illustration #animated gif #digital art #2d animation #environment art #environment illustration #backgrounds #background illustration #art backgrounds #night sky #constellation #cozy #myillust #hellooo! just wanted to drop by and share this piece with you! #there were a combination of ideas here: i wanted to do a glowing cityscape of its city lights and have it softly blur into the night sky #the title is also a big description for this i guess - 'remnants of where we have been' is like how the city lights were where humans were #the clutter around the character shows the remnants or the past of what they did #the map-like contours of the skies are like where the stars have travelled #idk i guess it's something that i think about often and it makes my heart ache sometimes;; #anyways! i really hope you'll like this! thank you so much for reading through this if you have and for your support as always c':

[obsob]

making and weaving and loving! like we have done for millennia!!

#mine #original #ough. hello. #happy new year!!!!! first drawing of th year!!!!!!!! #also LAKSBF 15k followers. hello. welcome #i taught bf how to crochet n hes making a blanket....the irl insp for this piece... #im so proud of these colours....i used an actual real life colour palette..n i think that is th way forward #also . gradient maps my beloved #why have i always refused ur warm embrace....... #dont pay attention 2 the wool bowls okay ive seen a picture of one like once #i do want one however. tho why r they so expensive #its a bowl w a hole in it. relax #ive been listening 2 the silmarillion audiobook as ive been working...i love it sm its like incomprehensible #like. idk what ur talking abt but i love it all th same!! #i tried reading it last year n was like.......okay anyway #rereading gay nuclear disaster book rn....natasha pulley would it kill u 2 write a smut scene #i want 2 see th horrible little scientist man get railed #next book after this is . 1030 pages oaodghsdugd #my goal is to read 50 books this year but i do not think that will happen bc i refuse 2 read books less than 400 pages skjdgbskjd #someone ask me about books. i have so many opinions abt books #okay good evening. i leave u w love

[snailfen]

i finally finished these!! i felt bad that hunter and monk didnt have their own titlescreen art, so i started on making my own for them a few months ago. nailing the official rendering made this harder than i thought haha

also, when i originally made these, i had the idea of making this into a sort of challenge for other people to make their own title art for these two. im still standing with that! if you want to take a shot at making your own version of titlescreen art for these two, go ahead! hell, tag me if you want.

#thank you pansear for giving me the most comprehensible advice on rendering these ..... doing the whole thing in B&W first helped a LOT #and thank you gradient mapping for making things easy #my art #rain world #rain world downpour #the hunter #the monk #hunter rw #monk rw #slugcat

[dovewingkinnie]

i just realized i could animate anything i wanted to and now its my mission to create the fnaf warrior cats fandom no matter how small mike schmidt ivypool warrior cat

#ivypool #warrior cats #fnaf #the maps with fnaf songs dont count #they need to make the warrior cats fnaf