My fantasy world drawing

Books as foundation for adventure. Tiny Worlds and Fantasy Architecture. Click the image, for more art from Martina Arend.

I’ve realised I have a particular workflow for drawing coastlines in my maps. Here’s a quick walkthrough. Each step is done on a new layer in photoshop, and I use a 5px hard round brush in each case with size set to pressure. However, all of these steps can be done in Gimp – or … Continue reading "How to Draw Coastlines on a Fantasy Map"

A lovely and colorful way of illustrating countries, around the world. Anna Cheberiak is a graphic designer and recently started working as an illustrator as well. Amongst all of her pieces, I have chosen for today's post, her travel journal illustrations. They consist of highlights, of some of the most beautiful countries on our little blue planet. Plus there are three more drawings, that have some travel connotations, but are of a different style form the others, they lean more towards the…

All the Little places where magical creatures live. German Artist Martina Arend has a real flare when it comes to drawing fantasy illustrations. Amongst all of them I have chosen Architecture and her houses. Delightful little places where, if only we could look into the windows, we would see all manner or magical folk. I imagine every single building to be a cosy relaxing place. Some of them homes and some of them businesses or, workshops. Warm comfortable homes with a roaring fireplace to…

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Draw Your Own Fantasy Maps: One of my favorite things about playing tabletop RPGs is that it inspires me to create art that fits into that world. Whenever I play a Dungeons and Dragons campaign, I always feel compelled to create a very detailed world map to help me envision th…