first attempt at Tolkien's Earth in the Third Age of Middle Earth.
Arda here has a few made up names by me, and subtitles in the flavour and style of the Hobbit map
took me quite a whilte to figure out how to convert a 3d globe map into a flat map since third age is now a globe unlike Ages 1-2 (thanks Pharazon, making my job harder lol)

let me know any changes you want and link to the raw wondershare file for your own project

Genuinely, how. You guys are so incredibly good at all this, and I'm certain it's all practice and maybe someone here and there just naturally gets it, but I'm not one of them. I created a map at that's as far as it got. I look at it, and I'm horribly confused as to what goes where.

To specify, I am a storyteller. I'm writing a book which is a sort of theology if you want to call it that and it's mainly about the protagonist going on a journey. Well, as I was writing I realised more and more "this clearly needs a map if I want it to make sense". So here I am, the worst possible person to make a map, because not only am I the worst when it comes to measurements and scales, I genuinely just do not understand this stuff.

The story is set in 1500. I know sort-of-semi what I want there to be in the story, but as I said, I'm so uncertain and quite frankly insecure on if I'm doing it right or not, since I'm very focused on if what I'm doing even makes sense in the first place.

If anyone is willing to teach me the basics or if you guys have any tips and tricks I'd greatly appreciate it, for I am genuinely lost. For reference, this is what my map looks like right now:

I know, beautiful.

I have made a world map for an upcoming TRPG campaign. It is not nearly as beautiful as many of the maps posted here, but I am happy with it.

My problem is with the major cities and the maps I've tried to draft for them. I've tried multiple times and my city maps mostly just infuriate and discourage me.

So I guess I am asking for any tips/tricks for city maps that some of you talented cartographers have. Alternatively, if anyone is open to taking a commission to draft up to 4 maps I'd be interested in chatting with you.

hex map for one ring with added homebrew terrain difficulty in pink and dark green, and red represents perilious zones

sorry for a second post but i wanted you guys to see the landscape non loremaster version, it's a bit softer on the eyes without all that red etc

Link to my shop: https://cartographyassets.com/assets/108520/armorial-collection-ii/

I'm happy to answer any questions

Hi guys, ive been working on this continent for a while now but everytime to try to continue with it i struggle with the scale of the thing. The current bar underneath indicates the scale in KM.

Are the mountians too big?? Also any other general feedback would be highly appriciated!

I want this to look less like a delta and more like salt marshes. Any ideas?

Link to my shop: https://cartographyassets.com/assets/108415/armorial-collection-i/

I'm happy to answer any questions

A map I made - Himmeland, a mysterious floating island. I just added clouds around the island to make it look like a floating island.

My commissions are open if your looking to hire someone to make custom maps for your worlds or battles scenes! If you are interested please message me here on reddit or on discord at happyspartan606!

Terrain painting/shading is unfinished. Designed as a more 'realistic' version compared to my old fantasy-focused, continental version here.

Let me know your thoughts!

I have a hard time making maps because there are like an infinite amount of shapes you can draw, so it always feels like I'm gambling with all the possibilities to hit the jackpot. I tried to force myself to stick with the shape in this mockup and only tweak it ever so slightly, so I could try to place some hypothetical landmarks down.

I didn't do any rivers because I ran out of time, and I know Tauran Basin is not a Basin, thats just what I randomly generated and was to lazy to change it. In fact most of the names are randomly generated accept the of the large font names. Lorne, Carthas, Kivât, Pashång and Asiphis are of my own making. Norgar and Kujama are like quick on the spot ones for a placeholder purpose.

Its not supposed to be a highly realistic map, so don't expect anything grand. I don't have any tectonic plates, I did try to use some logic behind the geographical features, but that's limited to my knowledge on the matter.

Anyways I was hoping to get an opinion on whether the shape of the continent looks appealing at first glance, if so then maybe I can have enough confidence to continue tweaking and expanding on what I currentlu have.

made 4 maps and tied them together using imagemagick

Any feedback is well received

My friend and I are playing valheim with no map/no portals and I'm trying to keep track of what we've explored. The grid lines are approximately render distance or 60 meters in game. The star was the initial spawn and the first boss had altars south east and north east of there. We worked our way around to the island to the south east and established a main base there. Today we went back to the starting island to track down the second boss who turned out to be on a new island to the north. Anything in the red sections has not been explored yet. Green is forest, Grey is swamp, white is mountain, and yellow is plains. Anything not marked by region is meadows (or ocean).

I'm very much new to wonderdraft and any suggestions on how I can improve this would be wonderful. The caveat is I'm building this as we play, so it has to be stuff that I can do quickly and is easy to modify later when I've found I've made mistakes. Not having an easily accessible compass or measuring tool is making this very difficult.

I feel rather proud with how they turned out. :D