Fantasy Map Podcast

John is a full-time cartographer and an academic historian who, as the name suggest, not-so-surprisingly devoted his career to eels and their influence on the old world. This time we take a bit on a scholarly coat to discuss John’s career as a cartographer-of-choice for the publishing house at the university gnawing through 50+ maps per year. Where to find John: Website Patreon X Maps & Shared...

In this episode with Arturo we talk through his overnight leap to the forefront of Instagram fantasy cartography scene, growing his map business from a side hustle to full-time job as well as forever unfinished, garanguatan, personal projects. We mention some business side of cartography and pricing, Filip's and Leander's big projects in the making and of course the ever-present, risinf influences...

In this battle of the timezones, Leander and Dominique dive directly into project pricing, client work, dragons and compass roses and work through Dominique's history and current set up as an artist, her process, cartographic journey and recommendations on drawing maps on MS Paint using decommissioned trackpad. Follow Dominique: Instagram | X | Patreon

In this episode we discuss the plans for 2025 as well as our personal projects and a bit of some behind-the-scenes of our mundane existences. Enjoy!

Our unplanned Christmas special featuring Tom — cartographer well-known for his distinct style featuring magic mushroom villages and googly-eyed seamonsters. He supports the community greatly and we’ve all stumbled across as well as learned from his mountain tutorial (or any other) on YouTube. Besides map-making, Owen is also a YouTuber, talented photographer, father and an overall life balance su...

A GMT-based artist-slash-physicist with incredible portfolio of art styles. We talk dark client-works, thickening lines in Photoshop, wordlbuilding robot gnomes and making money as a DM for online TTRPGs.   Follow Chloe 🔗 Instagram | ⁠ 🔗 Web

This episode we dive in to the realms of dragons and mythical beasts and how they can be used in the not-so-fantastical contemporary world entangled by processes. Karin is a long-time cartographer who managed to sneak a great deal of her mapping creativity into her professional career. Chapters EP! Guest intro Karin's first steps in maps Her very first map (Tir) How do you start a map - thought pr...

When you read a story, you’re taking the reader by the hand and showing them your world. Give them a map and they are free to go wherever they want. To quote our fourth guest, Rodney Elliot of @wyrmwoodmaps — a master storyteller, who spent over 30 years building his fantastic world of Ithia. We dive into his creative process and explore the ways to tell stories through maps. Leander & Filip g...

In this episode we bring back the good ol’ Micron pens and share the story of inktober-to-master-cartographer Paul. We talk all about the classic top-down dungeon maps, doodley cities as well as Leander’s favourite isometrics and working with unusual perspectives. Our guest also gives us, the TTRPG rookies, a walkthrough of the classic gaming systems and solo dungeon crawlers which he also talks a...

In this episode we chat with veteran cartographer & world-builder Scott Mayfield about his work with Atlassian & Valiantys, using Inkarnate as well as diving deeper in personal artistic expressions. We briefly touch on specifics of drawing and developing personal style, creative process, inspirations for our works as well as some practical advice for working with clients on commission. Las...

This is a very first episode of the Fantasy Maps Podcast where you can meet your hosts Leander (@treepainter) & Filip (@filipsersik). We are discussing our brackground stories, the goals of the podcast and surprisingly — maps. CHAPTERS EP! Filip and Leander Introduce themselfes Our first maps and inspiration Reference for maps and our techniques AI and Fantasy Maps Fantasy map characteristics Isom...