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2y

My method for creating fictional world maps:
1) go for a walk after rain
2) take photos of drying spots on the sidewalk
3) draw over them ✨

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Photo I took of the surface of a wet sidewalk that has dry spots in it and a second image that's the same photo but with the edges of the spots outlined.

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The Wired City

Located east of the country, this city (commonly called the Blue Roof City for its iconic tiles) is quiet and unremarkable for the untrained eye. Except maybe for the proximity of the mountain in the north and the eastern sea. But beyond its mondaine appearance lies a lot of interesting places, and I would like to show you :)

For this Inktober I decided to take you on a little tour of the city that is the backdrop of most of my illustrations!

The illustrations will be quick and mostly without reference, but I hope you’ll enjoy your visit this month!

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10d

Another older review, I'm not sure what being a ride means, but I think it's good 😁

Free eBook in comments.

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That black hole is something else.
By Arthur Inverse

The Last Philosopher is a ride.
The story starts with a black hole named, wait for it. Di- I mean Richard. And as a black hole should be, he think's hes the absolute center of the universe, able to bring everything to him and underfoot.

Then we are brought to our chrotchity old headmaster of our school.
The story so far has been good with worldbuilding, pictures and maps in the story adding just the right amount of touch and immersion to help visualize wheer you are and what is going on within the chapters.

I found little to no errors in word choice, flow, and spelling. Solid all around.

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Map of the Sojurut continent in the Age of displacement.

On the off chance that someone has a question about the places on the map, feel free to ask 😁

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The digital version of this map was drawn from my pencil scribbling, which I guarantee you don’t want to see, by https://www.wattpad.com/user/edoggypaws

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106d

“[P]ay attention to the moments of contradiction and uncertainty threaded through character dialogue and self-reflection […] Watch his tone. Watch his humour. For me, that’s where the sharpest lessons are.”

—Bethany Jacobs on the worldbuilding of Iain M. Banks

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2506129-why-sci-fi-novelist-iain-m-banks-was-an-astounding-world-builder/

#Scottish #literature #IainBanks #IainMBanks #TheCulture #ScienceFiction #Scifi #worldbuilding

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101d

What common evils lurk in your world? So common everyone basically ignores it? Like, I come from a country with free healthcare, and every time I see the American system in action, I can't help feel that is evil in its purest form.

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An unspeakable horror strolls down the street and waves to a couple of people. "Ugh, not this guy. He never shuts up about some ancient evil that lurks within us all."

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This is a Knome (short for Knowing-nome) drawn by @JJiawei on wattpad as a prize for winning a writing award 😊

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Drawing of a furry faced, spindly creature with big ears and sack like clothing and in a tool/book belt. Because everyone should have a book belt for emergency books :)

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I just discovered the Fanart friday tag so you're going to be getting some fanart of my story The Last Philosopher on fridays 😁

This one is a map of the Sojurut continent before and after "The Spell"

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245d

My son's becoming a true master with #WorldPainter & #WorldMachine and has been creating some stunning and super detailed landscapes (not just alpines ones) for #Minecraft/Ardacraft/Conquest Reforged... Btw. He's also accepting commissions, wink, wink...

Download link for one his latest maps in this post:
https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@Nekso/114750912762833010

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