Dhelian - Mihkel Rand

Some of the very overt foreshadowing has got me very excited to keep on reading. I had to get out a highlighter and pencil after finishing the first chapter just to highlights some of those sentences and to write down my thoughts. I don't typically annotate, so that's new for me as well

A paperback copy of the novel The Mercy of Gods by James S.A. placed on a table next to two beautiful candles.

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

a lil accomplishment 🐾🩷

Oh hey, it's a me! Thanks for the shout-out, AP! 😊

Watch The Frogs by AP. A silly little solo RPG about mischievous frogs

🐸 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.

#ArtvsArtist ✨

Tiny "Fellowship of the Ring" scenes in watercolor #art

Aww thank you, you wonderfully skilled and critically acclaimed friend and enjoyer of fine birbs 😊

I'd like to pass the love along to also another wonderful creator of maps and all-around lovely person, @ap-cartography.bsky.social!

Thanks! If I am a wizard then I must be a rather slow conjurer of maps since casting such spells takes me quite a while and a lot of effort

A black and white fantasy map depicting a mountainous area with lots of various peninsulas and forests nestled between the mountains.

A black and white fantasy map depicting an archipelago off the shores of two continents, the largest of the islands is home to various large settlements, forests and mountains

A black and white fantasy map depicting two continents that are separate by a narrow sea. Both landmasses feature mountains, forests, and various settlements

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

That's one gorgeous looking book! Nicely done with the cover art ✨

A grid of six images with a green label of a price in the bottom right corner of each, and part of the descriptive text beneath each. The top row have three colored maps: from left to right - a town map, a village map and a regional map. The second row has a small contintent map in sepia tones, and two solo journaling RPGs.

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

So when are we getting Mochi map prints? 👀

Delicious is definitely a good word for it! 😋

A somewhat dated meaning of the word ejaculate is something that is said quickly and abruptly, so I can sort of vaguely see why the AI might suggest that, but the only place where I've encountered that meaning of the word has been in classic works of literature

Ooh things are looking gorgeous! Colouring is always a terrifying process for me. I feel like I'm wrangling chaos and hoping that by the end of it all things will make sense and I'll be satisfied with the results

It is hard to know what goes inside the mind of a mountain. Would be nice if they helped me plot some stories though

Thanks! It is quite rewarding looking back on older art and seeing how much that cartography skill has levelled up over the years 😊

A drawing of an eclectus crab. It has a cube shaped pink body, with a flat cap and two eyes sticking up from the middle. The left (right side, from the crab's perspective) legs and claw are bright yellow, and the right (left side, from the crab's perspective) are dark purple. Its yellow crushing claw is much larger than its purple claw. Drawn in April 2025, a species designed by myself for a worldbuilding project.

A drawing of an eclectus crab. It has a pink square body, six legs sticking out from underneath, and a pair of large bulky claws. ` Drawn in February 2023, a species designed by myself for a worldbuilding project.

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 new crabs are looking great. Love how textured they are now. I'll share what's probably my very first fantasy map from around 2013 or 2014 and one from last year ✨

A hand grasping a pen that hovers above a display tablet which has a work in progress black and white fantasy map on it. Some of the mountains are shaded while others still await the gentle strokes of the pen to provide them with shade.

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

A close up view of a hand holding a wacom stylus, working on a black and white drawing of a map showing a section with lots of trees and some buildings in the top corner, and a hill to the right with a tower and some broken walls around it.

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 map of an egg shaped continent.

Happy Easter everyone :)

#map #mapmaking #mapmaker #cartography

A work in progress black and white map featuring an island with forests and a couple of smaller mountains

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

Umm... April 2022 apparently 😅

Looking good already! I really need to get around to doing another settlement map as well at some point. It's been far too long

i think about this image daily

Yup! After nearly 4 years of living in Denmark I'll be moving back to my family's house in Estonia and then a few months after that I'll be applying for uni and looking for an apartment of my own that's closer to it :D

A kanelsnegl with a mocha latte and an ereader all upon a round table in a cafe

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 ✨