Inspired by a post by u/AdmirableZombie1023, I decided to give it a try to put my fictional continent of Yalera into the Google Maps style. How'd I do? If you have any questions about the map or lore of the world, just ask.

(i apologies for my poor English.)

Hi! I’ve never posted anything before, but I’ve always enjoyed drawing maps for the fantasy worlds I create.

Today, for the first time, I tried making a map showing elevations, depths, and rivers. I’m reasonably happy with how it turned out, so I decided to share it.

I know it’s not exactly high-level work, but I’d love to get some advice on how to improve.

(This specific map was just a random experiment in Ibis Paint, Just to practice drawing mountains and rivers, so it doesn’t have a story or a name.)

Made in QGIS. I wonder how different Europe would look by the 15th century if the sea level was always this high?

orange circles with T are train stations, green circles with M are metro stations. included couple progress pics from drawing

I'm working on a rather unusual map of Tír Ghlas, my fictional medieval world.

This time, instead of drawing a conventional geographical map, I'm trying to recreate the style of the 13th-century monk and cartographer Matthew Paris, particularly his famous strip maps showing the route from London to Jerusalem.

The idea is to represent the main roads of Tír Ghlas as a medieval traveller might have seen them: a succession of towns, villages, landmarks, and useful information, rather than a geographically accurate representation of the landscape.

The imaginary author of this map is Brother Venanzio, a travelling monk who has taken it upon himself to describe the roads of Tír Ghlas for the benefit of future travellers. He records towns, inns, markets, dangerous places to avoid, and anything else he considers worth mentioning. You can even see himself in the bottom corner, warning travellers about a particularly dangerous forest!

I'm using a mixture of Latin and Irish Gaelic for the place names and annotations, and trying to imitate the lettering and illustrations of medieval manuscripts.

This is still very much a work in progress: I've only completed part of the first strip, and there's a long road ahead!

Everything is hand-drawn, with ink on paper.

I want to make my own fictional countries provinces, municipalities and cities expandable and contractible and also a geographical terrain map of the heights and rivers. Not a country generator, something where you can draw the country's shape since most I find are AI fantasy world generators. I know there are pages for that since my friend sent me one but I can't remember the name. Preferably free since I am a student, I'm already 18 and I don't have savings.

This is my first time making a map do ya'll have any tips for my map I'm using paint.net

Since 2019, I’ve been imagining a fantasy series in my head. It started with a crude MS Paint drawing, and now it looks like this :3

Bare Mercury is the name of my world. It is a transparent substance that looks like water, but it is actually a poison with a deceptively pleasant taste. The main character constantly struggles to achieve his goal, yet he refuses to give up on his dream, even if pursuing it ultimately leads to his death.

To sail west and discover lands that everyone has forgotten.