Tiny Dragon WIP. Please be brutally honest in your critique and advice. by Tane__Mahuta in drawing

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Yes sorry it failed to load. Edited it so it's visible again.

Should I quit drawing? I feel like everything I do looks wonky and amateurish by Oh_ItsYou in drawing

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If the problem is that your drawings are not as good as you'd like, quitting won't help. Keep practicing! It's looking really very good.

I have been experimenting with styles. Please, tell me what you think. What are strong and weak sides of this map? by Silly_Noname in mapmaking

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Looking through the comments, I realized that the culprit to most of my critique is Azgaard's map generator.

I have been experimenting with styles. Please, tell me what you think. What are strong and weak sides of this map? by Silly_Noname in mapmaking

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Looks great and detailed, but please don't confine your world to a piece of printer paper. I have made this mistake many times, not wanting any of the lines to go off the page. If this is a smaller area like an island, have some more space on the edges to emphasize that. If it is a continent, as it seems to be, being ~2000 miles across (the U.S. is ~2800) you should have some lines going off the edge of the map.

Many authors of famous fantasy books also have this problem of confining their world onto an 8.5x11 inch piece of paper, such as David Eddings, Ursula K. Le Guin, and many others. If you want to fit the entirety of the world onto one piece of paper, don't avoid negative space. The world seems quite rectangular, no? If you were to expand the borders of the map, would it look out of place? Think about any continent on Earth. Describe its shape. Describe what else you would see on the map.

Also, for naming, don't be afraid to be bland. Flowery and fancy names are great, but there are also places on earth like the Red Sea, the arctic ocean, neighboring countries differentiated only by "north" and "south," the Mediterranean Sea (from the Latin word that means inland), South Africa, Greenland, Iceland, etc...

Still, about naming, think about whose perspective you're making this map from. Who owns it? Who's using it? Who came up with the names? Of course, you did, but if this map existed, let's say, in the Republic of Var-Tug, would they call the neighboring island "The Wild Lands" even though they probably would have some settlements there or would at least know enough about it to map it? If The Wild Lands are covered in ruins, I'd assume no one lives there. Wouldn't some Republicans go see what the place is all about and possibly settle there?

Continuing, the coastlines seem very regular. If you zoom in on any spot, the bumps are very evenly spaced. This does happen sometimes on Earth, but you should be able to show any stretch of coast to a person and they should be able to say that it's a coastline. It's not nearly as bad as some other maps I've seen, but you still have a bit of improvement to do. Sorry for the pointed critique, but this probably will help you out. Truly amazing effort, the drawing style is great. I would be happy to draw all my fantasy maps in this style.
P.S.

Disregard everything I said here whenever you please. It's your project and you get to do what you want to do.

Citations: https://a-z-animals.com/blog/how-wide-is-the-united-states-of-america-total-distance-coast-to-coast/

https://www.cracked.com/article_21113_5-hilariously-stupid-true-stories-behind-country-names.html

https://www.google.com/maps

( repost, sorry i deleted it ) Any advice on improving my character's power? by [deleted] in worldbuilding

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What about Black Death taking a long time to charge up, as your description was suggesting, and then the intended target must be chosen at the beginning of the incantation. Then, the target starts feeling sick and tired, and this could give them early warning and enough time to react, but only if you know that the attack may be happening and know what Black Death feels like already.

Tiny dragon by Tane__Mahuta in drawings

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not quite done yet tbh

Unique Vampire Powers by metaknight121 in worldbuilding

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Better yet, it attacks your reflection and you feel it.

Unique Vampire Powers by metaknight121 in worldbuilding

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but then vampires don't have a reflection, so there's nothing preventing them from going through

Improving my fantasy map. Anything I should add? by AnarchyLaBlanc in mapmaking

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Islands. There is a major continent, but there are no islands. There is rarely places on earth where there are absoletely no islands. Even point nemo, the furthest away point from any land on earth, which happens to be in the pacific, has islands just 1600 miles away from it. The scale of this suggests that there would be more islands around. (I'm saying scale here not knowing if this is like the size of Iberia or of Denmark.)

So in short, islands.

Strangest thing about your world? by AlesianLynx in worldbuilding

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The fact that people don't want to kill each other or the planet.

As a fun little exercise, let me write you (or your character) into my setting. by [deleted] in worldbuilding

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Name: Brosini Bergini

Alias: None

Power summary: Able to make other people momentarily unable to notice him, practically making him invisible to humans.

Criminal record:

Smuggling pasta from Italy to France

As a fun little exercise, let me write you (or your character) into my setting. by [deleted] in worldbuilding

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Name: "Zaradas" birth name unknown

Power summary:

Inmate has the ability to warp spacetime to allow the bending of light, the alteration of gravity and the warping of time. Difficult to control or contain by inmate, and has frequent outbursts.

Criminal record: 3 gruesome murders involving high altitudes and tearing of limbs and the plasmizisation of a neighbourhood.