An Old Map I Made

in map •  7 years ago  (edited)

Everything I get this month will be donated to the Missions fund for the International Christian Church.

Ever since playing Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past and reading fantasy books with maps in the front, I've been obsessed with drawing maps--maps to nowhere places that don't exist. In middle school I won the Future Cartographer Award, though that was probably more due to artist merit and creative license than accuracy. This was for a game and never got used. I drew it with a Copic brush on Chinese rice paper for practicing calligraphy.

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I always loved these style of maps in fantasy books and video games too! I'm adding you to the @ARTzONE voting list :)

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This is a nice drawing, but, it can't really be called a map.

map
map/Submit
noun
1 . a diagrammatic representation of an area of land or sea showing physical features, cities, roads, etc.

It is missing the names of mountains and cities and roads ...

It's more for a game, as I said, where the characters would be pushed around the squares. Adding words would have gotten in the way, though had I finished the map I might have if that would be beneficial to the gameplay. Not labelling the geography and man-made features is not uncommon for tabletop games. Here is an example better than mine:

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I realize that: "It's more for a game", but even for a game, there needs to be names of places and features and roads for it to be called a map ...

Okay.