This is the map that I posted last time. I have been working on it quite a bit as you can see, adding rivers and lakes, and castles (pardon the drawing skills). This is about the time when I would start giving the map a story, this one just hasn't gotten one yet because my mind is a little blocked.
In any case it will probably get one...eventually. In any other case...I usually have a story for it by now.
But right now I am just contenting myself with adding to this map.
Maps are nothing so hard to do unless you are a Perfectionist. The only thing that is ever perfect is Christ.
Hils are just curves, and if you want to make hill homes just connect the two ends of a hill and put a door there.
Lakes can be whatever shape you choose. I made a lake look like a duck once.
Rivers tend to be connected to some larger body of water, like an ocean or lake.
Mountains are traingles, to save time. cause otherwise... well, look at the finished map below.
What do you notice?
There are many things going on on this map.
Now look at this cropped closeup.
Mountains, and little huts are all over the place. These mountains took an hour to do.
So a peice of advice.
Don't get crazy with you maps, or your hand will have more pencil on it than the paper will.
