Fantasy Map Drawing for Beginners

DRAW A FANTASY MAP ONE STEP AT A TIME
This book teaches beginners how to draw a fantasy map by hand with pencil and pen. You start with a simple page layout and a rough island outline, then add coastlines, mountains, hills, rivers, forests, borders, towns and labels. Each chapter ends with a short step-by-step exercise.

WHAT YOU WILL FIND INSIDE
- 24 chapters in 6 parts, from planning the page to inking the final map
- 15 figures of invented maps, drawn so every label and line can be read clearly
- Symbol charts with each mark drawn beside its meaning
- Tables that compare what different map and art pages say, so you can choose your own approach
- 30 reference sheets on scale, pens, pencils, line weights, labels and finishing
- Worked examples with simple arithmetic for scale bars, distances and page plans
- Forms, a glossary and a source list

HOW THE BOOK WORKS
Facts are drawn from public map, geography and drawing pages, and the book says when pages disagree. Where a mark is the book's own suggestion, it says so. The maps in the figures are invented and not to scale.

WHO IT IS FOR
Writers, game masters, hobby artists and anyone who wants to draw their own map of an imaginary world. No drawing experience is needed. You need paper, a pencil, an eraser and a pen.