I find them immensely helpful and I would have a hard time drawing isometric maps without the grid. Or start with a blank map, and using the Generate menu generate the coast & river (if you want them), main roads, city wall (if. Set one window of options (population, coast, river, etc.) and it generates a city in a minute. When I draw isometric maps, isometric paper pads from Hahnemühle is my go-to pad. Rotation: For a much more dynamic random city with many more options, try Worldographer’s City/Town/Village Generator. I find dotted paper really helpful when drawing maps, however it does take some time to remove the dots digitally after the image is scanned. I have plenty of different sketching pads laying around, but I tend to use either dotted paper note books from Field Notes (they’re small, so it’s easy to keep one tucked away in your bag) or a larger Rhodia dotPad.You could also pick up some of their coloured markers, should you want to draw colour maps. Drawing shadows is easy, but adds a lot of character to your maps. Gray Promarkers are great for adding shadows.I usually use three or four different sized pens for one drawing. Try to get a set of different sized pens so you can work with lines of varying thickness. A set of decent markers, such as Pigma Micron, Uni Pin or Copic fine markers are not expensive, but makes a lot of difference.Here’s some of my recommendations on map-making tools: It makes the process of drawing by hand much more fun, and you will get better results.

How to use Photoshop to clean up an ink drawing The Tomb of the Dire Knight What tools should I get for drawing maps? It’s really not that hard to draw maps, it just takes a bit of patience and practise, and following tutorials is a great way of practising different techniques.Ĭhoose one of the following links to get started: If you enjoy my drawings, you might also find my tutorials useful.

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