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Forest Roads

Hello everyone! For the 1st map of September here is Forest Roads. Just some roads crossing a autumn themed forest, one of them surely leads to a Druid Camp, right? I was surprised to see I've made that map ...

Rocky Hills Trail

Hello everyone! For the 2nd map of August here is Rocky Hills Trail. After working with a lot of lines in the previous map, I needed to make a refreshing painterly map! 😅 - Not much to talk about this one other than it is always really nice to draw nature, I like the vibes of a low level group...

Astral Forge

Hello everyone! For the 1st map of August here is Astral Forge. I attempted something different with this one which is, simply put, having a more consistent line art; that led to the possibility of making some major changes with the variations because of how the layers are organized, the style, a...

Light In The Dark

Hello everyone! For the 2nd map of July here is Light In The Dark. This map is versatile to be a desert, another plane, inside a cavern or a muddy swamp; but in any of these options the intent is for it to be a "last stand" kind of encounter, as the darkness surrounds the party and monsters appea...

Ruined Fortress

Hello everyone! For the 1st map of July here is Ruined Fortress. This was one of those maps where I spent a lot of time figuring out what to do, the initial plan didn't even include ruins, but when I landed on this final idea I knew I wanted to have a variation of a "bandit camp" on top of the fo...

Well of Storms

Hello everyone! For the 2nd map of June here is the Well of Storms. Initially I intended this place to be a cloud or storm giant's floating island, which is also why the grid size fits a giant walking around - but as I painted it I also wanted to give it Plane of Air or storm-deity vibes, I hope ...

Shrine of Golden Leaves

Hello everyone! For the 1st map of June here is Shrine of Golden Leaves, I recently had in my campaign an order of knights that carried a golden leaf from a sacred tree, that leaf would always shine as long as a knight's virtues stayed true; and that was the inspiration for this map! But it defin...

Fallen Beast

Hello everyone! For the 2nd map of May here is Fallen Beast. Was this creature a fallen wild god or perhaps a demon? I wanted to leave that unclear so this map is useful in multiple kinds of campaigns and encounters, either way the stone platform provides a good "stage" for a caster boss to stand...

Strings of Fate

Hello everyone! For the 1st map of May here is Strings of Fate. As you know, I mostly make natural landscapes for maps, sometimes they don't even have any fantasy elements, but for this one I went full turbo high fantasy - And it was really fun to make! I wouldn't mind making more like i...

Highlands

Hello everyone! For the 2nd map of April here is Highlands. Got inspired by some photos of Iceland with beautiful vibrant colors and interesting shaped... rivers? Honestly I'm not sure if they are called rivers, but they certainly look cool. :P

I think monsters that don't have a hard time i...

Mountain Ruins

Hello everyone! For the 1st map of April here is Mountain Ruins; this one was very experimental, similar to Cloudy Peaks in a way, a rocky mountainous terrain, visible mountain crests and an impression of ...

Muddy Marsh

Hello everyone! For the 2nd map of March here is Muddy Marsh. I wanted to make a map that focused on mud being the biggest obstacle, so here is a map full of it! I think it can be an interesting encounter with not only difficult terrain but also requiring a few checks for a character to assume if...

Night Temple

Hello everyone! For the 1st map of March here is Night Temple. I think this was the most challenging map I've made to this day! There was a lot of trial and error especially with the color and values, but also with the statue and water reflections. The initial idea started with the art on the wal...

Lake Shore Path

Hello everyone! For the 2nd map of February here is Lake Shore Path! This map is the first one I made on my new display drawing tablet, for all these years I've been using a simple pen tablet, so as a birthday gift I decided to take the leap and upgrade, it has been a lot of fun! Though I still n...

Snowy Mountain

Hello everyone! For the 1st map of February here are some snowy rocky mountains! I wanted to make something like a trail to a mountain top but also not very linear, so there are multiple paths the party could take leading to different areas; for Hero of the Realm tier patrons, there is a variatio...

Wizard's Expedition

Hello everyone! For the 2nd map of January here is Wizard's Expedition. Back with a classic top-down perspective map, I remember having a lot of fun with my other caravan map so I decided to make another one! A...

Stone of Swords

Hello everyone! For the 1st map of January here is Stone of Swords! Kept remaking the layout of the lower half of the map to make it more interesting for gameplay and still visually appealing, but I think it paid off in the end with a cool design.

I imagine this place being a memorial to fa...

Molten Cave

Hello everyone! For the final map of the year, here is Molten Cave! This map has a few more variations than usual for Hero of the Realm patrons as I added a purple and a green version of each combination instead of the usual day and night of other maps. There was a lot of experiments with this on...

Coastal Cliffs

Hello everyone! for the 1st map of December here is Coastal Cliffs! Painting all these rocks took a long time, but it was fun! I wish I had more time to make some variation with a house near the edge of the cliff, but I'm already posting this map very late as this month has been a busy one, maybe...

Old Tree's Bog

Hello everyone! For the 2nd map of November here is Old Tree's Bog! I wanted to make this a kind of eerie and mysterious place: an old tree deep in the bog's bluish fog, lonely, surrounded by mud; I think it worked! This could be a sacred place to a nearby village, a passage to another plane or p...

Ranger's Lodge

Hello everyone! For the 1st map of November here is Ranger's Lodge! I wanted to make this map for a long time, a simple theme of a guild hall or headquarters for a ranger's group, but one I really like! In the first sketches I envisioned it very differently in a lot more fantastical style, with t...

Mountain Fortress

Hello everyone! For the 2nd map of October here is Mountain Fortress! I'm enjoying going back a little bit to these not completely top-down perspectives, as you can see in the recent Druid Camp and Bridge To The Woods maps. It is very enjoyable to be able to jump between these s...

Druid Camp

Hello everyone! For the 1st map of October here is Druid Camp! I had a lot of fun drawing this one, scattering objects around to tell a bit of a story and making this painterly background with fun orange tones was great. I think it would be a nice place for a druid circle's celebration near a shr...

Two Headed Dragon

Hello everyone! I'm excited to finally talk about this project that I've been working on for a while now, Two Headed Dragon is another Patreon page that I just launched with an artist friend: Babs;  there we will monthly...

Bridge To The Woods

Hello everyone! For the 2nd map of September here is the Bridge To The Woods! My idea was to make something fairy tale-ish like: "The mysterious dark woods beyond the stone bridge the villagers dare not crossing", I think it worked quite well I'm pleased with the results! :)

Thank ...

Sun Shrine

Hello everyone! For the 1st map of September here is the Sun Shrine! I wanted to make something different in kind of like a desolate terrain, this place could be an old ruined temple or have a secret entrance to the underground, and it may be related to either an attempt to save the lifeless surr...

Forest Tomb

Hello everyone! For the 2nd map of August here is Forest Tomb. It has been a while since I made a forest and that is a theme I like a lot, so I'm happy about this one! I tried to give it a different look than what I usually go for with forests with a shorter and smoother grass, maybe this place h...

Coastline

Hello everyone! For the 1st map of August here is Coastline! Drawing the sea is always a tricky for me for some reason, so I took the challenge once again and tried to paint a coastline; I think in the end it looks nice and I'd consider these the best waves I've done so far for a map, probably ne...

Lonely Hut

Hello everyone! For the 2nd map of July here is Lonely Hut! - I guess I was in the mood for drawing cozy houses in remote places this month. As I mentioned in the last post I had a short time to work with this map so you may notice some of reused assets from other maps in this one, I was worried ...

Snow Cabin

Hello everyone! For the 1st map of July here is Snow Cabin! As some of you may know from the Discord group this was not intended to be the first map of the month, unfortunately the file of the original map got corrupted, but on a positive note this map here may never have happened if it wasn't fo...