Building a Fantasy Map

As an illustrator I thought building a fantasy map would be fairly easy…however it’s not. Not at all ^_^

There is a lot to consider and fitting it all on one, or three pages is quite a task. I designed mine on paper first, a huge A1 sheet, it was still too small, so I then used 2 and stuck them on my bedroom wall. After a lot of work designing the shape, perspective, weight and style of the land, I could then start making the puzzle.

Mare-Marie is built up in places, poisoned and swampy, desert and desolate in others. I wouldn’t like to get lost there.

The next stage was to recreate the paper verision in illustrator, I chose illustrator for it’s vector properties. The style is quite “Gamey” but it’s a young adult book and I feel it will work.

I have placed my map over 3 a4 size pages. On an ereader it will be on three pages and a link available to a high rez map placed on this site.

I’ll also look forward to the print/poster version. Which will be in full colour and available to download.

Below is the Black and White Kindle Ereader version. I’ve printed it out so I can have a good look at it. So far the North is full (packed full of places, forests, woods, rivers, deserts) and as we go further south the more baron and sandy the territory becomes. As in the novel.

Now lets colour Mare-Marie

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