Handdrawn anyone??

[Cornell]

Does anyone here draw maps by hand?? I was hoping to look at hand drawn maps that I could study.

[Steel General]

There are several folks here who do a lot of hand-drawn work. Try doing a search on "hand drawn" you should get a decent response back.

[töff]

My pencil has no Control-Z.

(And no, my eraser doesn't work that way. I wish it did!)

[torstan]

I hand draw my maps, in the sense that I use a tablet and Gimp. I do a little concept work with a pencil and paper, but mostly it is done in the computer.

The person here who does the most actual hand drawn work is Delgondahntelius. He's written a tutorial on it here:
http://www.cartographersguild.com/showthread.php?t=3013

[Midgardsormr]

There was a thread a while back where several of us who now use computer-aided techniques posted old hand drawn maps.

http://www.cartographersguild.com/showthread.php?t=815

[Gamerprinter]

I'd say half to one third of my maps are hand-drawn to start with - usually are digitally enhanced for color, bump or bevel and shadows, after I scan them in. Of course I do strictly digital maps as well. It really depends on what kind of map I need and turn-around. Hand-drawn work takes more time.

Some of my very illustrative digital only designs take me little over an hour to create. But if I want a personal style or a more archaic look - I hand-draw.

GP

[waldronate]

I'd say half to one third of my maps are hand-drawn to start with - usually are digitally enhanced for color, bump or bevel and shadows, after I scan them in. Of course I do strictly digital maps as well. It really depends on what kind of map I need and turn-around. Hand-drawn work takes more time.

Some of my very illustrative digital only designs take me little over an hour to create. But if I want a personal style or a more archaic look - I hand-draw.

GP

You have what some folks like to refer to as "talent" - something that many of us lack...

[CBDroege]

I have hundreds of hand-drawn maps from the campaigns I ran prior to good graphics editing software appearing on the computer.

Someday, I should get all of those maps out and scan them into a database.

I also occasionally paint my campaign maps. I should find a way to get those into the computers well.

[PlanetDesigner]

I used to hand draw all of my maps (way back before I discovered computers) - I'm 42, so I can remember one the very first true mass production computers (The "Coleco Adam" - complete with a primitive compuserve subscription that you paid through snail mail and an old cassette tape recorder hard drive! LOL). I even cut my teeth on the old Radio Shack TRS-80 desktop that used wobbly floppys the size of a toast dish, and that had no real operating system to speak of.

I hand draw things that I scan in to incorporate into my graphics. I do a lot of hand drawn art work, but not so many hand drawn maps anymore.
I am - however - extremely skilled at hand drawing maps in the old "Tolkeinish" style, as I learned how to draw fantasy maps by studieing Tolkein's work way back in grade school. If I ever wake up in the dark land of Mordor one morning - I'll be able to find my way NE to The Shire, and I won't need a GPS TOM TOM to do it!

[Cornell]

I know, I have tons of hand drawn maps, city's, massive cities with around a thousand houses. A lot of people say they don't have the patients to draw them but I love it.

And I checked out the tutorial you mentioned torstan, it didn't really tell me how to draw anything particular. It was awesome though to learn a little more about the right pens and pencils.

I'm gonna post a map that I started last night here in a bit.