Creative Gameplay Maps: Illustrate a Fantasy World

Overview

“In this lesson, we will go over how to expand your maps into locations big and small. And that's the beauty of maps! They can be of anything and at any scale! All that matters is that it mixes information (even very simple information like location names and which way is north) and beauty (through the abstraction of land). ”

In this video lesson Andrew Kolb addresses the topic: Building an Entire World, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creative Gameplay Maps: Illustrate a Fantasy World. Create cartographic pieces full of detail, texture, and wonder using Photoshop and InDesign..

Partial transcription of the video

“ Building an Entire World Now we've finished our original map. It's time to explore how we can expand what we've already learned and apply it to other maps or other scales of maps. In this lesson, we'll explore how we can take the concepts and make them bigger and smaller. Looking at this map, let's break down how we got here. The steps are very much the same in that I worked with a simple thumbnail and did a basic orientation or composition of those shapes, then blew it up and added more details. I think where this differs from the previous map that we did is instead of those individual s...”

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Course summary for: Creative Gameplay Maps: Illustrate a Fantasy World

• Level: Beginner
• 95% positive reviews (55)
• 3412 students
• 4 units
• 21 lessons (4h 49m)
• 11 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Digital Illustration, Editorial Illustration, Traditional illustration