University is starting up soon and so my good half a month of mapping might have to come to an end, but before that, here's a Korea I drew recently
Dhelian - Mihkel Rand
@dhelian.bsky.social
- English language and literature student - Fantasy map artist, worldbuilder, writer, hot chocolate enthusiast, tea enjoyer, and Danish learner Commissions open ✨ 🗺️ - dhelian.com
Another map done! As you might be able to tell I'm a sucker for drawing mountains and trees. I bought some calligraphy pens recently as well so hopefully soon I'll be able to make use of those on my maps for labels and other stuff. Just need to learn to use them first ✨ #cartography #mapmaking
Been struggling to find the motivation to work on maps lately, but yesterday I found myself messing around with pen and paper in a café and that got me back to working on a map today! Quite happy with what I made 😊 #cartography #mapmaking
Recently I've been reading and enjoying James Islington's Hierarchy series and so I decided to make my own version of the map as well! Hoping to finish The Strength of the Few today. Only a hundred pages or so left to go 😄
art comms open! 🥰 I draw all kinds of topics and have a cute style (no NSFW for now... unless?) day job hasn't given me shifts in weeks and I need to make up for it with with art 😅🫶 DM me or follow my link to get custom pieces before new year! (or pls share instead)💕 ko-fi.com/c/f996d0cecf
Started reading James S.A. Corey's The Mercy of Gods yesterday and it's been a hoot! Really loving it so far, especially the build-up of tension leading up to Part 2 of the book ✨ I'll have to get around to reading The Expanse at some point as well.
Have you checked out the tutorials on my website? They’re a good start if you want to get into mapmaking. This castle tutorial is just one of several. No paywall, all free. 🖊️ 📜 wistedt.net/tutorials #dnd #dungeonsanddragons #ttrpg #mapmaking #cartography
🐸 And here we have it, the result of a random little fixation over the past few days! A silly little game about frogs! My submission for @prokopetz.bsky.social WTFjam on itch.
Watch The Frogs by AP.
A silly little solo RPG about mischievous frogs
ap-cartography.itch.io
Finished up a black and white commission a couple of days ago and both the client and I are quite pleased with the map. Often I feel like I'm harder to please than the people I work with, but on this occasion I'm thrilled with the final results! #map #mapmaking #mapmaker #cartography #fantasymap
Self-promotion is always hard to do, and something I often forget to do too. But here's just a lil reminder that I have a few things over in my Ko-Fi shop available if you should like to toss some coins my way (and many, many thanks in advance if you do choose to 💚) ko-fi.com/apmaps/shop
I often forget how far I've come with my art. The first is from April 2025, the second is from February 2023! Do you guys have any old/new art you could share, to show how much you've improved? 🥰 feel free to repost, so more people share their wonderful #art!
The weather outside might be bright and sunny but this map and its mountains and hills are going to end up a lot shadier today! #fantasymap #wip #mapmaking #humanmade
Finally at the shading stage! The linework is done, for now (I'll probably add a bunch of labels later once I've thought of names) so now on to adding some shade to bring some life into it before moving on to the colour stage. Feeling pretty good about this map so far! #wip #fantasymap #humanmade
A mappy (almost) Easter weekend to everyone! ✨🥚 Getting my well-wishes in early in case I accidentally close my bluesky tab and forget to open it again for weeks 😅 #wip #mapmaker #digitalcartography #fantasymap
In a week from now I'll be handing over my keys and saying goodbye to Denmark and the 7 square metres of personal space that I've been renting, but in the meantime I can reflect on life and eat pastries while reading in a café ✨
have a little break on me, here are some pictures from when my cats were kittens 💕
I hope everyone has a wonderful new year ✨ Last year was a bit of a mixed bag for me and I didn't get a lot of art done, but at least I finished up my Danish courses with fairly good grades on the final exams. Another thing I'm proud of is reading 43 books in '24 and in 3 different languages!
I believe I promised ducks at one point so here you go 🦆
I'm quite thrilled to have two of my maps in a shiny book such as this! Also, a big thank you to the other wonderful mapper, Soraya Corcoran, for recommending me ☺️
Ben Galley@bengalley.bsky.social · 2y agoMore pics because I can’t stop looking at it
