a couple of years ago, i was only making maps for my personal writing projects. it’s only recently that i started to make maps on commission.
what’s the easiest part? what’s the hardest part?
that’s a tricky one! i’d say the easiest part of making a map is working out where everything goes and how it all fits together. for example, mountains are like the backbone of a continent and everything else flows down out of them. rivers are at the mercy of gravity, so they always take the least difficult path, which is usually downhill and around obstacles, not through them. forests grow around rivers and lakes and so on. once 