Fantasy Cartography Tutorial Series

Michael Wenman at “Observations of the Fox” has a great series of articles on map-making.  He has a list of articles on the website that goes to #13 but he is actually on #19. You can browse his past posts for the rest or look at his posts tagged with “Design” which are mostly these tutorials.

Of course at Inkwell Ideas we have several tools that make creating maps in some styles very easy… but if you have the talent/time to draw them by hand or to learn a sophisticated image editor like Photoshop/GIMP/Inkscape/Illustrator these articles are very worthwhile.  Many apply to maps made in Hexographer/Dungeonographer/Cityographer.  For example: island shapes, how much detail to add, river placement/flow, etc.