--- product_id: 109750670 title: "How to Draw Fantasy Art and RPG Maps: Step by Step Cartography for Gamers and Fans" price: "€ 16.51" currency: EUR in_stock: false reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.gr/products/109750670-how-to-draw-fantasy-art-and-rpg-maps-step-by store_origin: GR region: Greece --- # How to Draw Fantasy Art and RPG Maps: Step by Step Cartography for Gamers and Fans **Price:** € 16.51 **Availability:** ❌ Out of Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** How to Draw Fantasy Art and RPG Maps: Step by Step Cartography for Gamers and Fans - **How much does it cost?** € 16.51 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Currently out of stock - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.gr](https://www.desertcart.gr/products/109750670-how-to-draw-fantasy-art-and-rpg-maps-step-by) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Bring your fictional realm to life with simple step-by-step instructions on how to draw authentic fantasy maps More than 30 step-by-step demonstrations show how to construct an entire fantasy world map from start to finish—both digitally and by hand. Set the stage for adventure by illustrating domains, castles and battle lines, mountains, forests and sea monsters! Learn to create completely unique and fully functional RPG maps time and time again on which your world can unfold. All the skills necessary to create awe-inspiring maps are covered, including: • Landscapes : Add depth, balance and plausibility with rocky coastlines, towering mountains, dark forests and rolling plains. • Iconography : Mark important places—towns and cities, fortresses and bridges—with symbolic iconography for easy-to-understand maps. • Typography : Learn how to place readable text and the basics of decorative script. Bonus instruction teaches you to create fonts for Orcs, Elves, Vikings and dragons. • Heraldry and shield design : Depict cultural and political boundaries with shields and colors. • Advanced cartography : Learn how to draw landmarks, country boundaries and political lines. Build roads to connect merchants and troops, troll cairns and dragon lairs. And complete your maps with creative backgrounds, elaborate compasses and thematic legends. Review: I think I'd have developed into a better artist all around as it provides a process to ... - I just received my copy in the mail today, and I think this book is very well done. I was looking for something a little less "rudimentary" regarding Mr. Blando's process and style, but I can already tell this is going to be a go-to book for many budding and aspiring young cartographers. If this book had existed when I was discovering RPGs in junior high, I think I'd have developed into a better artist all around as it provides a process to explore one's own map-making and drawing skills. The book seems to be written to directly address a person who is inspired by their imagination to create their own RPG world. How do you get the ideas out of your head and into a map that will help you play out the stories you want to tell? It's not necessarily written for more advanced and developed map-makers or cartographers, but speaks right to the heart of the need of those that have never made a map before and are bursting with ideas. The step-by-step methods he outlines are simple, and he takes it from an analog rather than a digital perspective. Anyone using a computer can certainly follow his outline, but he assumes his readers don't have a fancy computer program they've somehow mastered with all its bells and whistles. This book is more of pencil-and-paint approach, not a Photoshop recipe. It also has a LOT of visual examples. The vast majority of the book gives examples but doesn't delve into specifics: "Step 1, Draw the henge. Step 2, Add detail. Step 3, Add finishing detail." It doesn't ever tell you how to draw the henge or add the details, it instead shows visual examples of how Mr. Blando does it. So there are lots and lots and LOTS of visual illustrations that are really inspirational. 30 years ago when I was in junior high, this book would have been too cost prohibitive to print. But today, it's a visual treat that young people get to enjoy. My only regret (and perhaps some day Mr. Blando will write another book addressing it) is that it's a little too rudimentary for more advanced fantasy cartographers or fans of his work. I suspect, however, that may have had something to do with his editors and publishers. Mr. Blando creates stunningly beautiful and imaginative cartography with a very high level of detail. And probably the best thing about this book is that it helps raise one's awareness of the thinking that goes into that detail. It parses his approach out into elements that a casual viewer can use to go back and appreciate his work (and all fantasy cartography) with new eyes. Helping budding cartographers become aware of all those possible aspects to creatively express one's own imagination through artistic mapping is probably the most valuable and impacting contribution this book will make. It's going to influence a lot of beginning mappers, like similar "How to Draw" books have made on impressionable young artists. And ultimately that's a good thing. I recommend gifting this book to the young RPG'er in your life. They'll devour it. Review: Great Guide, Easy to Follow - Provides excellent instruction in how to create maps, particularly ones in a fantasy setting but the information could be used for other types of maps as well if you wanted to. I thought it was an especially nice touch to include tips for both hand-drawn and digitally drawn maps as well as the list of tools suggested by and used by the author. The illustrations are pleasant to look at and are incredibly helpful to show what the author is referring to. It's definitely helpful for world building and map making of all sorts. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #820,759 in Kindle Store ( See Top 100 in Kindle Store ) #36 in Science Fiction & Fantasy Art (Books) #94 in Science Fiction & Fantasy Art (Kindle Store) #116 in Fantasy Gaming | ## Images ![How to Draw Fantasy Art and RPG Maps: Step by Step Cartography for Gamers and Fans - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81gKIDzWpYL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ I think I'd have developed into a better artist all around as it provides a process to ... *by C***N on August 13, 2015* I just received my copy in the mail today, and I think this book is very well done. I was looking for something a little less "rudimentary" regarding Mr. Blando's process and style, but I can already tell this is going to be a go-to book for many budding and aspiring young cartographers. If this book had existed when I was discovering RPGs in junior high, I think I'd have developed into a better artist all around as it provides a process to explore one's own map-making and drawing skills. The book seems to be written to directly address a person who is inspired by their imagination to create their own RPG world. How do you get the ideas out of your head and into a map that will help you play out the stories you want to tell? It's not necessarily written for more advanced and developed map-makers or cartographers, but speaks right to the heart of the need of those that have never made a map before and are bursting with ideas. The step-by-step methods he outlines are simple, and he takes it from an analog rather than a digital perspective. Anyone using a computer can certainly follow his outline, but he assumes his readers don't have a fancy computer program they've somehow mastered with all its bells and whistles. This book is more of pencil-and-paint approach, not a Photoshop recipe. It also has a LOT of visual examples. The vast majority of the book gives examples but doesn't delve into specifics: "Step 1, Draw the henge. Step 2, Add detail. Step 3, Add finishing detail." It doesn't ever tell you how to draw the henge or add the details, it instead shows visual examples of how Mr. Blando does it. So there are lots and lots and LOTS of visual illustrations that are really inspirational. 30 years ago when I was in junior high, this book would have been too cost prohibitive to print. But today, it's a visual treat that young people get to enjoy. My only regret (and perhaps some day Mr. Blando will write another book addressing it) is that it's a little too rudimentary for more advanced fantasy cartographers or fans of his work. I suspect, however, that may have had something to do with his editors and publishers. Mr. Blando creates stunningly beautiful and imaginative cartography with a very high level of detail. And probably the best thing about this book is that it helps raise one's awareness of the thinking that goes into that detail. It parses his approach out into elements that a casual viewer can use to go back and appreciate his work (and all fantasy cartography) with new eyes. Helping budding cartographers become aware of all those possible aspects to creatively express one's own imagination through artistic mapping is probably the most valuable and impacting contribution this book will make. It's going to influence a lot of beginning mappers, like similar "How to Draw" books have made on impressionable young artists. And ultimately that's a good thing. I recommend gifting this book to the young RPG'er in your life. They'll devour it. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great Guide, Easy to Follow *by A***R on January 9, 2019* Provides excellent instruction in how to create maps, particularly ones in a fantasy setting but the information could be used for other types of maps as well if you wanted to. I thought it was an especially nice touch to include tips for both hand-drawn and digitally drawn maps as well as the list of tools suggested by and used by the author. The illustrations are pleasant to look at and are incredibly helpful to show what the author is referring to. It's definitely helpful for world building and map making of all sorts. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great for creating maps easily *by D***O on July 9, 2025* Really detailed instructions that show step by step how to create maps and other things I can use in my DND games. 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