A good app for linework?

[RazielKilsenhoek]

I use ProCreate on the iPad every day, often for hours at a time.

Checked it out and for the current cost, it looks very much worth it, especially if the maps on the main page of the website you linked were made with that program (or at least the linework). Favorited and will likely buy it later tonight!

EDIT: Bought ProCreate. Only 4 pounds so I'm already happy with it. Will be playing with that for the rest of the night, thanks for the suggestion!!

The one I kept coming back to, due to number of features and ease of use, is InkPad

I'll admit I'm in a cheap mood at the moment, though I will also say that I'm by no means a professional and that this hobby is something that has only recently taken any significant root. This free app looks very interesting, and the fact that it creates vectors makes it that much more appealing for what I need it for. I keep trying to think of a technical way to describe what I'd make with it, but I keep coming back to 'squiggly stuff'. For example, on your Blood & Gold map, the actual title at the bottom of the map has two yellow/gold things on each side. That's the sort of stuff I can draw on paper, but have trouble with on the computer. Thanks a lot for suggesting both of these!

I prefer to use Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 9

That one looks amazing but it's sooo far beyond what I can afford at the moment. Definitely something to keep for the future though, thanks a lot! And I wish I had a scanner just for that reason, even if it's a mediocre one. I figure the cleanups from shabby scanners can be done in Photoshop, but free-hand linework just doesn't work with a mouse no matter how hard I try.

[xpian]

For example, on your Blood & Gold map, the actual title at the bottom of the map has two yellow/gold things on each side.

The two yellow/gold things were loosely based on the shapes of an existing design that I scanned and then heavily modified through drawing. Then I added all of the stipple shading--one dot at a time--with my iPad stylus. I like stipple/pointillism effects, and wasn't sure it would work digitally (stochastic fills work some of the time, but usually the dots have to be laid down by hand to look right). But it did work, and I'll be using it again. It was all done in ProCreate, as was all the line-work, shading/highlights, and color tone for that map.