I love drawing maps and do that mostly for editorial design and private events. The private maps will remain private of course but below are a few maps I drew for the cover of You Are Here and to complement the illustrations for London from Above. Also, while still in lockdown, I’m working on a selection of […]
Our planet is mostly water - your worlds, fantasy or sci-fi, are going to have to have large bodies of water. But how do you draw the ocean to your maps?
I'm going to get more practical and give you 5 tools you can use when drawing in Challenge (or any other time). In this post, I will fully explain each one of these so you and your students can try them in your cartography work. Once you learn them, I bet you'll find them useful for drawing just about anything!
Have you heard? My new book Continuous Discovery Habits is now available. Get the product trio's guide to a structured and sustainable approach to continuous discovery. “Could it have been […]
The St. Louis Map Room was an experiment in collaborative mapping as a source of community engagement. A vacant school’s gymnasium provided a forum where, over the course of a month, 29 groups came…
Fine art ink on paper drawings and maps of cities and microorganisms by Philadelphia artist Colleen Keefe.
30-day drawing challenges are a fun way to practice your craft while trying new subjects you may not have tried drawing before. Well, we here at Building the Magic humbly offer for May a 30-day Map Drawing Challenge. And since May has 31 days, we've got a bonus day 31 idea as well. Just in…
Eigg Island
City map of Cologne. (1900)
Hopefully you have already started making your map for the competition. I’m looking forward to some great map submission and, of course, finding out who is going to win the ProFantasy prize vouchers. And, to determine those winners, we have a stellar lineup of judges to evaluate your efforts. So, without further adieu (and in […]
Cartography brushes for Fantasy.
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Every month we go through our back catalogue of maps and the many amazing supporters of the blog over on Patreon vote on which two should be re-released under the free commercial use license. Our second release this month is a small dungeon that was procedurally generated while playing Four Against Darkness (a solo dungeon-crawling…
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Another experiment in abstract schematic style mapping. This one was done in Word, with "view gridlines" turned on, drawing shapes (text box...
Children's book & map illustration
Helen Cann is an artist and illustrator specialising in maps, children's books, drawing and hand lettering based in Brighton, UK. She exhibits and teaches widely.
