"Humanity is slowly shutting down" - Jesse Hasek, 10 Years

Thursday, March 1, 2012

30 Days of World-Building - Day 22 - Geography

Exercise 22 - Redraw the map if you need to. It doesn’t need to be exact—when they put the map at the front of your beautiful book, the publisher will hire an artist to re-do it anyway. If you have no idea how to re-draw your map, get out a black marker and go over any pencil marks from your original that you will be keeping (like contours of the coast)-- leave out any lettering, as they won't show through well anyway. Put a second piece of paper over the first and trace over the black lines in pencil. Write in place names and any additional map key icons (little trees for forests, upside-down V's for mountains, etc.). Draw in your roads and rivers (remember: blue is always water on a map), and your cities, towns, and settlements.

Similar to Day 5, you're going to have to take it on good faith that I finished today's exercise. I don't want to subject the internet to my terrible drawing skills quite yet. Thanks again for having patience with me.

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