Quote Originally Posted by Jaxilon View Post
Have fun and don't give up. I had never done anything digitally when I started using Gimp and it was maddening not being able to craft what I knew I could do on paper but I just kept at it. It may take a while but eventually you will be able to make the software sing under your hands.
You could also start with a hand drawn map, scan it, and start working with it in gimp. You need not start with a blank canvas :-)