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

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

<b>Have you ever struggled with map making? Spent countless hours trying to make it comply with the laws of nature.</b><br /><br /><br />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.<br /><br /><br /><i>I have translated it all into 14 easy steps which allow you to construct an entire fantasy map from start to finish.</i><br /><br /><br /><li><b>Step One</b>: What you need to consider before starting your map.</li><br /><li><b>Step Two</b>: The different options for creating the map: from hand-drawn over software to hiring a professional.</li><br /><li><b>Step Three</b>: An overview of what is to come.</li><br /><li><b>Step Four</b>: Sketch your map and make sure to get size of the world just right.</li><br /><li><b>Step Five</b>: Adding continents by understanding how tectonic plates work.</li><br /><li><b>Step Six</b>: Terraforming your world.</li><br /><li><b>Step Seven</b>: Incorporating islands and lakes.</li><br /><li><b>Step Eight</b>: Making sure that rivers are realistic.</li><br /><li><b>Step Nine</b>: Adding forests.</li><br /><li><b>Step Ten</b>: Borders and understanding how the lands will affect the people who live on them, and vice versa.</li><br /><li><b>Step Eleven</b>: It’s then time for roads.</li><br /><li><b>Step Twelve</b>: Optional fantasy elements.</li><br /><li><b>Step Thirteen</b>: The final touches.</li><br /><li><b>Step Fourteen</b>: The Map Master.</li><br /><br /><br />As a companion to this book, you will be able to download a free worksheet.<br /><br /><br />This is not a book to teach you <i>how to draw</i>. It’s about <b>designing</b>.