...Or the art of map making. (moved discussion)
How to usually use maps in your writing. Do you make up your own, or find one from books or the internet. Do you get everything from your head, or do you base it off of real locations. Please comment.
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Moved from "Creating a Fantasy World..." by Ashelymae
Ranger Hawk
Nicely made! To go a bit off topic, I'd like to know what you do when it comes to maps--do you draw them out and then end up changing them later on? How do you end up drawing your maps?
I fail at drawing in general, and the pictures in my head are not big-scale; I can picture certain forests, castles, etc., very clearly, but when it comes to placing them in relation to each other, that's where I find myself struggling. Often I'll end up redoing each map because I decided to plunk a lake where a mountain was or something like that.
Posted: Fri Nov 26, 2010 7:57 am
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ashleymae
Well, you don't have to be good at drawing; I am not. To draw them is actually really simple. I recommend drawing them only in pencil, so then you could change it later on. All you really need to do is to draw it in the places you want, but to have the borders darker than the others. For mountains all you have to do is make a triangle and for forests you just need sticks with circles. To do cities and stuff, all you have to do is to put a dot and the name, but if you have a capitol, put a start so you wont get confused. Then, if you want to do a map about the cities, just draw the building and roads, etc. Remember to label everything so you would be prepared.
Posted: Fri Nov 26, 2010 11:41 am -
What I usually do, is take a map from our world, (mostly historical) and translate and adapt the region to fit the world I am trying to create. When creating a historical fact, I like to take a modern, and an old map, and sort of combine the two so that the location is still relatively familiar to the reader, but it still has some historical accuracy to it.
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