Hey check out this kickstarter for a wonderful setting with a Percy Jackson vibe. I’ve been hired to draw the map and it’s already funded, so I can’t can’t wait to get started. I just finished a Roman vibed map for a novel, so Greek will be fun next…
www.kickstarter.com/projects/mad...
A hardbound copy of Making Enemies rests on a wooden dining table. On the cover, a huge, pearlescent arthropod bursts out of a subterranean crevice and drives one of its large barbed claws through a dwarf fighter's abdomen, while another dwarf cowers in fear. The book is surrounded by blue and red polyhedral dice.
A wickedly grinning jack-o-lantern, larger than a man, running around on spider legs. You can tell it's larger than a man, because it's grabbed one with a viny tendril and is stuffing him inside itself, having lifted its own lid with another tendril.
A carriage with darkened windows, speeding through a ghostly mist. Its headlamps are eyelike and glowering, and there's an incriminating bloodstain on the front of it, right where it might impact a person's head.
Some horrible, shapeless thing that looks sort of like a gargantuan nudibranch, plowing through everything in its path, including entire trees. It's such a juggernaut, it's even breaking the frame.
IT'S ALMOST HERE! Making Enemies: Monster Design Inspiration for TTRPGs includes not only a treasury of ideas for creating your own homegrown abominations but also TWENTY original monsters, illustrated by @jencmars.bsky.social.
Preorder now at spyandowl.com/making... to get your copy on Oct. 7!
Hey Kieth, thanks. Hope you are well.
It never gets old seeing my maps in print, and here is my cartography for the spicy dystopian fiction, Silver Elite by Dani Francis (Del Rey publishing). I was approached to do a more modern looking map than the usual fantasy novel maps representing a post apocalyptic America #map #bookmap #novelmap
I dunno if any of you are wrestling fans, I'll be honest, I'm not, but Lucy, a friend of mine, talks on a wrestling podcast at it's deffo worth checking out if you are into wrestling. This episode with guest Kidd Bandit. youtube.com/post/Ugkxod8...
Looking fab
The finished, updated and extended land of Nicea. The new sections are to the far west and east. Seeing the ocean on both sides frames the continent and improves the map more than I would have guessed. #mapping #dndmap #dndcartography #cartography
It really is
Very cool indeed
A personal project of prototype board designs for a pirate themed board game concept I’ve got in my head that’s needs much refining. I’ve tried to create a vibrant representation of islands and varied navigational hazards on a hex map…. #cartography #map #boardgames
Black and white fantasy map
I’m drawing the line work for jungles, an excuse to add dinosaurs in the dense rainforest. It’s for dnd so the land needs to invite exploration. The jungle is criss crossed by rivers and mysterious ziggurats and gives way to a desert region with a few settlements. #mapping #cartography #rpg
Colourful fantasy map
I’m back once again to the magical land of Nicea. The client has been using the map in family games and now wants to extend the map to the east and west so it shows the whole continent which will look great. I love the spherical projection, I really want to draw a world map this way.
Not this time, but I have in the past
The map was a challenge, we needed to visualise this highly magical and fascinating world composed of a floating island sundered into two parts between a waterfall of souls. This is generally adult dark fantasy and I’m here for it. #fantasycartography #cartography
I’ve been quiet for a while on social media, but the cartography doesn’t stop, I’ve been super busy with some commissions like this one which is for The Island of Dreams: Dark Fantasy Peter Pan, an amazing sounding book by Jaye Viner, which is live on kickstarter jayeviner.com #maps #bookmap
Very cool. In my world the dragons have a different relationship to "tax"....
She is beautiful. She looks a lot like my Bobby, sadly no longer with us. He was a lovely cat too.
Thanks
Colour comes to the City of Arches cross section for Mike Shea’s (www.slyflourish.com) successful kickstarter. Pre orders still possible, if you missed out… Colouring is super fun and relaxing it’s always a nice bit of work to do and I really enjoyed colouring this one. #map #gamemaps #cartographer
I briefly revisited the land of Maeve, a world created by alloraleanne on Twitter for her fantasy books. I’m doing a fair few novel maps right now which is a dream, it’s such a privilege to illustrate the creative worlds of fantasy authors. #cartography #dragons #bookmap #map
Icky is absolutely the thinking.
Thanks, these were fun to draw, I have plans for more like this, but I've got a few client commissions to very through first.
I’ve gone to the max on use of lighting to set mood of different parts of the ship, without hiding parts of the map in darkness. Overall I’m pleased, I hope the players enjoy dealing with all sorts of trouble while exploring…#battlemaps #scifi #spacerpg #rpg #spacehorror #map #futurerpg #ttrpg
Final colour version of the wrecked command space ship for a space horror themed TTRPG. The humanoid cadaver themed shape is still pleasingly disconcerting, but it still looks plausible as part of a ship. #battlemaps #scifi #spacerpg #rpg #spacehorror #map #futurerpg #ttrpg
Thanks, this one here is my dwarf fortress map….
The geometry of this city map was too tricky to draw by eye alone, so I started by modelling the main cutaway cone and the central spiral path in Blender. And I’m glad I did, I’ve spent hours trying to get spiral staircases right, they are more tricky than they look. #Cartography
Close up of cargo bay on a spaceship
Making progress with adding colour on the space horror, spaceship map, with a well stocked cargo bay…. ‘We got tactical smart missiles, phased plasma pulse rifles, RPGs, we got sonic electronic ball breakers! We got nukes, we got knives, sharp sticks...’ #battlemap #ttrpg #rpg
Space horror spaceship schematic in a blueprint style
I’ve started adding colour to my space horror spaceship, and this time I’m not going down the blueprint vibe like I often do however, It’s still fun to see what it would look like. It’s on my long todo list to try real blueprint printing, it doesn’t look that hard, and would be a fun. #map #ttrpg
Yeah it’s especially the viewing on mobile that needs instant pop.
