What is a realistic population size for a medieval or ancient fantasy setting? Should a city have a couple of million people? How about 500,000 or 20,000? Let’s delve in and give you some simple guidelines as well as a cheat sheet you can easily reference as you are writing your story and drawing your map!

In this short step-by-step tutorial you’ll learn how to draw a village from start to finish, including the line art, colouring and shading.

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Update! This and many more tutorials on fantasy and D&D map making is availible also on my website, together with loads of free-to-download maps, check it out — click here! Villages and towns are…

One of the biggest challenges with fantasy maps in a top down perspective is they tend to look a bit flat. Fortunately, there are some simple tricks you can use to build up the layers of the landscape to give a sense of depth. In this Map Tip we’ll be looking at how to draw cliffs on a coastline in this perspective and make them really stand out in your map. #mapeffects #fantasy #rpg #drawing #maps