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<blockquote data-quote="gamerprinter" data-source="post: 6410620" data-attributes="member: 50895">Well that map is almost completely hand-drawn, though I plan to release much of the drawings as their own map object set, as part of a Kickstarter I ran last year to fund a series of Map Tutorial Guides. I just released the first book to backers this week, and after a final editing pass will update then release it to the public - called 25 Quick &amp; Dirty Map Tutorials Guide. Software wise I use <a href="http://www.xara.com/us/photo-graphic-designer/" target="_blank">Xara Photo &amp; Graphic Designer</a> 9 which is an affordable vector drawing application. That first book is for digital photo-realistic maps. The third intended guide for the series is hand-drawn maps. You could visit my Map thread <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?257465-Gamerprinter-s-Map-Emporeum" target="_blank">here</a> on ENWorld boards - I have many examples of both hand-drawn and purely digital maps.Even though the Kickstarter is long over, you can visit the <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/615795674/25-quick-and-dirty-map-tutorials-guide-book" target="_blank">KS page</a> to learn more about the products that I'm starting to release now.I'm a pro game cartographer having done work for Paizo Publishing, Iron Crown Enterprises, ProFantasy Software (makers of Campaign Cartographer), and many small 3PP firms. I just did my first commission for the video game industry about a month ago, creating a bunch of full color maps for the strategy guide for the November release of the next Activision Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare game. I'll be doing a half dozen other video game title strategy guides maps next year - so like I said, busier than hell these days.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="gamerprinter, post: 6410620, member: 50895"] Well that map is almost completely hand-drawn, though I plan to release much of the drawings as their own map object set, as part of a Kickstarter I ran last year to fund a series of Map Tutorial Guides. I just released the first book to backers this week, and after a final editing pass will update then release it to the public - called 25 Quick & Dirty Map Tutorials Guide. Software wise I use [URL="http://www.xara.com/us/photo-graphic-designer/"][B]Xara Photo & Graphic Designer[/B][/URL] 9 which is an affordable vector drawing application. That first book is for digital photo-realistic maps. The third intended guide for the series is hand-drawn maps. You could visit my Map thread [B][URL="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?257465-Gamerprinter-s-Map-Emporeum"]here[/URL][/B] on ENWorld boards - I have many examples of both hand-drawn and purely digital maps. Even though the Kickstarter is long over, you can visit the [B][URL="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/615795674/25-quick-and-dirty-map-tutorials-guide-book"]KS page[/URL][/B] to learn more about the products that I'm starting to release now. I'm a pro game cartographer having done work for Paizo Publishing, Iron Crown Enterprises, ProFantasy Software (makers of Campaign Cartographer), and many small 3PP firms. I just did my first commission for the video game industry about a month ago, creating a bunch of full color maps for the strategy guide for the November release of the next Activision Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare game. I'll be doing a half dozen other video game title strategy guides maps next year - so like I said, busier than hell these days. [/QUOTE]

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