Profantasy's Map-Making Journal

If you’ve missed any of the live mapping sessions we do on YouTube most weeks, showcasing a certain style or set of tools in CC3+, you’ll find them archived and organized into playlists on YouTube. Here are the most recent ones we did.

Welcome dear cartographers to another round of maps of the month – back to the regular one month selection in June. That doesn’t mean we have an any less spectacular selection this month. Check it out! We start with a personal favourite of mine, because it uses the Handdrawn Fantasy style by yours truly: Ricko […]

Are you preparing to venture into the forbidding badlands, probably inhabitated only by ferocious monsters? You will need a map to navigate those, and the map will need symbols for buttes and mesas to properly depict the terrain. This month’s free symbols provide those Monument Valley type rock formations for the Handdrawn Fantasy style. Note […]

Last month, Ralf posted a nice article about the old Forgotten Realms Interactive Atlas. Now, I actually love that old style, especially for the overland and city maps, but at times it would be nice to also have a version of a map in one of CC3+’s beautiful bitmap styles. So, I thought I would […]

July’s Annual continues where last month left off and adds a whole new bunch of symbols to the Mappa Mundi style, focusing on the mythical creatures and legendary places shown on the Hereford map. You can now illustrate your map with such creatures as elephants, lions, and unicorns, but also such strange folks as the […]