I feel like things are starting to get kind of real now. This is most of the town finished, including the local church (Saint-Pierre's) at the top with the cemetery below it. There's also a gambling hall, some gardens, a bunch of houses and, at the top left, a building known as the House of the S...
2020-01-04 01:55:57 +0000 UTC View Post
I hope you all had good holidays! The Mont has grown a good bit lately. There’s more of the town and the walls finished to the east of the gates, along with the Tour de la Liberté (“Tower of Freedom”).
The second image is the barracks with its own barbican and the Tour des Fanils (Th...
2019-12-28 15:42:36 +0000 UTC View Post
So, a few months ago, I was asked to draw part of a map of that a bunch of other artists would be working on. The map was of the innards of a tarrasque and the idea was that each person would draw a different organ.
I was asked to do something different, though: draw a building piercing thr...
2019-12-27 13:02:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's a couple of pages I (mostly) finished inking to give you an idea of what this thing was going to look like. These are the outer gates and barbican.
The outermost entrance, the "Porte de l'Avancée," is on the far left by the guardhouse. To its right is the "Porte du Boulevard." And f...
2019-12-22 16:21:31 +0000 UTC View PostThis month's Cartographic Congress vote is upon us and, with one Greek and two Roman-themed proposals, this one's got no shortage of chest hair.
Since it's the holidays and some people may be away from the internet for a few days, I'll leave this vote open until the 29th or so. Have a good ...
2019-12-22 04:28:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's Mont-Saint-Michel so far. First, I want to talk about what's finished, then I'm going to talk about some of the unusual things I need to do to get this map done right.<...
2019-12-21 03:34:35 +0000 UTC View PostSo, I've gotten some work done on Mont-Saint-Michel. Let's talk about it.
I always knew drawing this map would be tough, but, after looking into it more seriously, I've ...
2019-12-15 02:15:40 +0000 UTC View Post
As it stands, the dwarven city of Brazenthrone has 497 buildings with 2,247 rooms across 6 different levels of elevation and has taken around 1,300 hours to draw and color. I hope you like it so far. I don't know if it's the largest hand-drawn fantasy map ever made, but I'd say it might be when i...
2019-12-08 21:09:21 +0000 UTC View Post
As promised, here's the 3rd edition of the lore. I added a summary of each of the different districts of the city and some of the more notable buildings, like the Freehammer Forge and the Amethyst Arcade. It's stuff that I felt like I should explain for people who don't have access to the DM note...
2019-12-07 00:37:15 +0000 UTC View Post
There she is. I'll do History and Lore next, then I'm stitching this whole monstrosity together. But first I'm gonna go play some D&D.
2019-12-06 01:02:15 +0000 UTC View Post
There she is. I'll do History and Lore next, then I'm stitching this whole monstrosity together. But first I'm gonna go play some D&D.
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2019-12-06 01:02:12 +0000 UTC View Post
This was going to be the last level, but a few people mentioned that they could use a version without any interiors, so I'm going to do an overview map with roofs on everything. It'll only take an hour or two and I'll have it up later tonight. From now on, I'm going to start making those for the ...
2019-12-06 00:01:28 +0000 UTC View Post
This was going to be the last level, but a few people mentioned that they could use a version without any interiors, so I'm going to do an overview map with roofs on everything. It'll only take an hour or two and I'll have it up later tonight. From now on, I'm going to start making those for the ...
2019-12-06 00:01:20 +0000 UTC View Post
There will be one more floor to the Noble Quarter, which-- I'm not going to lie-- isn't going to be super exciting unless your favorite part of these is the roofs. But it'll only take a day or two and, afterwards, I'm finally going to put all of this together. All of Brazenthrone in one image. It...
2019-12-04 23:38:04 +0000 UTC View Post
There will be one more floor to the Noble Quarter, which-- I'm not going to lie-- isn't going to be super exciting unless your favorite part of these is the roofs. But it'll only take a day or two and, afterwards, I'm finally going to put all of this together. All of Brazenthrone in one image. It...
2019-12-04 23:37:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's the second floor of the Noble Quarter. I'd say there'll be two more, then that should be it. I'll be doing them next.
I don't have too much to add, but I wanted to mention one thing that specifically applies to non-patron VTT users: if you're using my maps on a VTT and you're not a p...
2019-12-01 02:56:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's the second floor of the Noble Quarter. I'd say there'll be two more, then that should be it. I'll be doing them next.
I've got the DM notes mostly written and I may actually finish those in the next day or so. I'll post those for you as soon as they're done. They talk about a catastr...
2019-12-01 02:55:57 +0000 UTC View Post
When a person of great magical power breaks the rules, you can't just throw them in the pokey with the cattle rustlers and meth dealers. Imprisoning someone with the ability to fly, teleport, and otherwise bend the rules of reality takes a place like the Silent Vaults.
Enclosed in an antima...
2019-11-23 00:38:08 +0000 UTC View Post
When a person of great magical power breaks the rules, you can't just throw them in the pokey with the cattle rustlers and meth dealers. Imprisoning someone with the ability to fly, teleport, and otherwise bend the rules of reality takes a place like the Silent Vaults.
Enclosed in an antima...
2019-11-23 00:29:19 +0000 UTC View PostSo, today is Thank You Patrons Day, presumably created because some people don't thank their patrons enough. If I'm honest, that probably includes me. But I really do appreciate everything you all do for me. This isn't my dream job, it's better. Had I known that drawing D&D maps for a living ...
2019-11-19 12:25:03 +0000 UTC View Post
The clanhalls are the family estates of Brazenthrone's high clans. High clans are basically the nobility of the Kingdom of the Twelve Mountains. You can read more about them 2019-11-16 22:33:12 +0000 UTC View Post
The clanhalls are the family estates of Brazenthrone's high clans. High clans are basically the nobility of the Kingdom of the Twelve Mountains. You can read more about them 2019-11-16 22:33:08 +0000 UTC View Post
There she is, ready for the scanner. Okay, back to work.
2019-11-14 15:35:08 +0000 UTC View PostThis is a collection of all the Brazenthrone Patrons' Edition annotated maps and DM notes. Someone recently asked if I had something like this and I didn't. And now I do. So here you go.
I'll update this periodically. It'll be it in the 2019-11-10 21:22:33 +0000 UTC View Post
A million tiny little lines later, the ground level of the Noble Quarter is finally all penciled and ready for ink.
Also, I played on Roll20 for the first time the other day. It was also my first time being a player in a while. I killed a gigantic pumpkin with an axe. It was pretty great. 2019-11-10 16:16:06 +0000 UTC View Post
This is the Rock of Cashel, the inspiration for Saint's Rock. Before it was a cathedral, it was the castle of Brian Boru, High King of Ireland. Fun fact: Brian...
2019-11-01 10:48:29 +0000 UTC View Post
This is the Rock of Cashel, the inspiration for Saint's Rock. Before it was a cathedral, it was the castle of Brian Boru, High King of Ireland. Fun fact: Brian...
2019-11-01 10:48:21 +0000 UTC View PostTwo of the proposals for this month's Cartographic Congress vote have pulled well ahead of the others: Senator Adrian's shipyard and dry dock and Senator Carl's prison. These two ideas will now face off in a gruesome and barbaric battle to the death. To recap:
Senator Adrian proposes a ship...
2019-11-01 02:28:52 +0000 UTC View PostI've had a few questions lately about how to print the 1-inch grid versions of my maps, so I thought I'd explain the two main ways to do it:
1)Take it to a print or copy shop and let them deal with it. This does cost money, but they can probably print it on a single sheet and they almost ce...
2019-10-24 05:21:18 +0000 UTC View Post
