Fantasy Map Making: A step-by-step guide for worldbuilders - Softcover

Schmidt, Jesper

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1981766197 ISBN 13: 9781981766192

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2018

Synopsis

Have you ever struggled with map making? Spent countless hours trying to make it comply with the laws of nature?

This book is a step-by-step guidebook that will teach you how to create an authentic fantasy map.

You will gain all the knowledge necessary to complete a map which your audience will believe, no matter if they are readers, viewing a movie, video game players, or role-playing gamers.

It contains the exact process I use when creating maps for my fantasy fiction. I have spent countless hours researching and learning about the topography of Earth and how to apply it to a fantasy map so that you do not have to.

All translated into 14 easy steps which allow you to construct an entire fantasy map from start to finish.

• Step One: What you need to consider before starting your map.
• Step Two: The different options for creating the map: from hand-drawn over software to hiring a professional.
• Step Three: An overview of what is to come.
• Step Four: Sketch your map and make sure to get size of the world just right.
• Step Five: Adding continents by understanding how tectonic plates work.
• Step Six: Terraforming your world.
• Step Seven: Incorporating islands and lakes.
• Step Eight: Making sure that rivers are realistic.
• Step Nine: Adding forests.
• Step Ten: Borders and understanding how the lands will affect the people who live on them, and vice versa.
• Step Eleven: It’s then time for roads.
• Step Twelve: Optional fantasy elements.
• Step Thirteen: The final touches.
• Step Fourteen: The Map Master.

As a companion to this book, you will be able to download a free worksheet.

This is not a book to teach you how to draw. It’s about designing.

About this title

About the Author

I have always loved creating and I suppose that if I was only allowed to choose two words to describe myself they would be, "Focused ambition." 

Yet, the art of writing was something that lived a quiet life, in the back of my mind, for many years. 

It was a dormant desire and, like so many of our dreams, it was placed on a list of things to do later; you know, when time would allow it. And there I left it. Half-forgotten. For a long time. 

I have a Finnish sauna to thank for eventually picking it up from that dusted corner and beginning to pour my focused ambition over it. 

Every summer (almost) my wife, two boys and I go to Finland and spend a couple of weeks trying to do as little as possible. In that cottage it is all about slowing down and recharging our batteries. The atmosphere is perfect for it. 

What it was exactly that sparked my authorship I cannot say for sure - maybe it was just slowing down that gave another perspective? Maybe I was just ready for it? Whatever it was, 

I'm ever thankful that it happened when it did back in 2015. Why wait when you can act today?

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1981766197
• ISBN 13: 9781981766192
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 165