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I made a little poll to my Ko-Fi about whether I should make there a dedicated Fantasy Map Commissions Slot option with 4 different tiers.

Go there and answer to it, or leave me a comment below what you think - and would you buy a custom, digitally hand drawn, map for yourself?

Contact: hiisikoloart@gmail.com if you are interested!

https://ko-fi.com/polls/Fantasy-Map-Commissions-Page-Q5Q319UD13

Black and White, large fantasy map. Edges of the map have small decorations of leaves, and framing rectangular lines. In the left hand bottom corner is a medieval-inspired drake, surrounded by curled leaves. On the left bottom corner is a special themed compass with the style that fits Hannah Steenbock's (the client) book covers. At the top reds the name of the book this map was made for "Winds of Destiny" in handwritten, fantasy styled typography. The surrounding sea depicts a galley in the center left, a whale at center right, and two dolphins at the bottom center. Locations on the map top to bottom depicts places like: Iceburg, The Holy Empire, Holy City, Yellow Ford, Jungle Fortress, Anoeira, and more. There are multiple types of vegetation from icy tundra, to jungle, and desert. Each tree and forest is hand-drawn one by one. The style is inspired by Tolkien.
Hand drawn digital drawing of a fantasy map. Black and white theme. Added weathering to the edges to make it look like a worn out map. Map displays an island-like world with a surrounding seas - Habarkin sea, Dagrelian sea, Elberfin sea, and two sea monsters. In thw world are places like - Lichstein at the top, Arralia in the middle, Rogue states to the right, and Gran Republic to the bottom. In the middle is Heathens' Hollow. The map displays cities, sandworms, small towns, crops, different biomes, a mountain, and many points of intrests - like a witches' cave.

Here's one more of my handprinted and embossed postcard maps. The white lines are hiking trails in the region of the Austrian Salzkammergut. The lines are screenprinted and the landscape embossed with a letterpress machine and a 3d printed cliché.

Me holding a blue postcard with the landscape of the Austrian Salzkammergut region embossed in the paper and hiking trails printed in white lines

I hadn't visited @OpenInfraMap in a white: it's a pretty impressive custom rendering of power and telecommunication infrastructure in OpenStreetMap.

If you need something new to map in OpenStreetMap, looks like lots of neighborhoods still need to have their power poles mapped! 😳

https://openinframap.org

A screenshot of Open Infrastructure Map showing the complex power generation facility at the Grand Coulee Dam in Washington State
A screenshot of Open Infrastructure Map zoomed in on the Potrero Hill neighborhood in San Francisco showing detailed (but incomplete) mapping of power poles and local power distribution lines along neighborhood streets

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#Drawing and (digital) #painting is something I often fantasize as a hobby I'd like to take on - if only I had more time. And, given how many art-related books I own, I have fantasized about this a lot.

Alas, my time is limited - so I largely limit myself to some #ttrpg #cartography at most...

The Atlas of Atlases: Exploring the Most Important Atlases in History and the Cartographers Who Made Them

This beautiful book is a lavishly illustrated look at the most important atlases in history and the cartographers who made them. Atlases are books that changed the course of history. Pored over by rulers, explorers, and adventures these books were used to build empires, wage wars, encourage diplomacy, and nurture trade.

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Written by Philip Parker, an authority on the history of maps, this book brings these fascinating artefacts to life, offering a unique, lavishly illustrated guide to the history of these incredible books and the cartographers behind them. All key cartographic works from the last half-millennium are covered, including: The Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, considered the world’s first atlas and produced in 1570 by the Dutch, geographer Abraham Ortelius, The 17th-century Klencke — one of the world’s largest books that requires 6 people to carry it, The Rand McNally Atlas of 1881, still in print today and a book that turned its makers, William H Rand and Andrew McNally into cartographic royalty. This beautiful book will engross readers with its detailed, visually stunning illustrations and fascinating story of how map-making has developed throughout human history.

It's not much of a map, but for us, it's a moment of "what could have been".
From 1883, this is a pre-automobile look at Los Angeles and its distinct neighboring towns. It does show the major wagon roads of the time, but those thick black lines were railroads that could take you down to San Diego, into San Bernadino, or even up to Santa Barbara. It's interesting to imagine if the region had developed by rail rather than highway.

Here a simply colored map showing from Santa Barbara California, down to San Diego, and simpler times when sparse roads, and several railroads were the arteries for development and commerce