I was supposed to make a detention center, but I wanted to give a unique feel. So I ended up doing this weird hanging structure that acts also as a labour camp. Let's see how this turns out after I've added some details.
2016-03-22 23:10:36 +0000 UTC View Post
I picked one of the ideas I got from you, my good patrons, which I thought was something that could come in handy and I could do fairly quickly with the time I had at my hands. The other ideas I got were equally good, but many of them would have taken too much time. I'm adding them to my to-do list and going to do them later. Thank you a lot for the great ideas!
Many fantasy RP...
2016-03-22 16:39:20 +0000 UTC View Post
I just got the approval for this map and here's the map version with points of interest and street names.
As I menationed in my previous post, the map was originally designed and made for Nine Dragons Publishing's Honour RPG.
The Honour RPG is available through the publishers own web store or...
2016-03-21 09:38:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Ok, here it is. The big map I've been working on for a few days. This was actually a commission work (that I do occasionally when I have some time) done for Nine Dragons Publishing. This is for their Honour RPG that depicts a world much like ours, but with supernatural and fantastic elements.
The map is based...
This is not exactly an adventure, but more like a micro-setting or encounter that you can throw in your own campaign or play as a one shot. Making this took me much longer than I had planned and it's also the first multi-page Patreon release.
This map and encounter was largely inspired by the Expanse books and tv-series, and the Alien movies as well. when I wrote this, I ...
2016-03-18 14:57:31 +0000 UTC View Post
In the woods infested by blood-sucking mosquixi, there is a small hill and on the side of it there is a rock formation that hides the entrance to the vaults of the oracle spirit.
Deep underground dwells an immaterial spirit being that can appear to the brave adventurers who are resourceful and brave enough to find their way to the oracle.
Those who are worthy to meet the oracle can ...
2016-03-15 15:37:54 +0000 UTC View Post
It's been a bit quiet lately on my part and the reason is here. I'm doing a commission work of a weird/mystical version of the Walled City of Kowloon. This is an interesting map to work on, but man there's a lot to do! This map is A3/tabloid size and drawing all the squiggly roads, buildings and rooftops has taken quite a few hours already and there's still the shading to do. Fortunately I get ...
2016-03-14 23:30:45 +0000 UTC View Post
I've been asked a couple of times if I could make, or if I already had some common buildings or locations. We actually needed a cargo dock map for our Star Wars campaign awhile ago and since then I've wanted to draw this. I want to share this for free because it's the kind of map I would like to be available for all as soon as possible and I think this map doesn't require my typical finishing o...
2016-03-12 00:23:23 +0000 UTC View Post
I had an idea of a dungeon that would be actually the ruins of a subway station or an underground mall or a bombarded section of a city, for example. I have strong Shannara vibes going on in my head now (even though the series is not as good as I hoped for...), but let's see what will happen. Next up are the details and the shading and then I get to test my new scanner.
2016-03-09 08:58:30 +0000 UTC View Post
It was already some time ago when I was asked to make a secret base or hideout that would be in jungle. I thought that it would be quite cool to make a base that was built in a giant tree. At first I planned on drawing a large map with multiple platforms, like an Elven or a Wookie city in the trees, but then I thought that a base in a single tree would have a better focus. I have not...
2016-03-06 01:35:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Here are all the maps and resources published during the February neatly packed into one convenient zip-file. Please note that the file is over 80MB in size.
2016-03-04 08:59:59 +0000 UTC View PostA few quick things about the goals. It seems that the $60 Video stream goal is not achieved after all. It's missing maybe 30c, but the system rounded it up to $60. Well, I don't see this as a problem myself. But I'll let you all know when I have something set up for this.
And about the LED light table. Now that I have a new wacom and I have found a good marker paper that is ea...
2016-03-01 12:56:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's a collection of maps made in February and these will become available on my blog during March. Here on Patreon we are going to see military scifi themed buildings, rebel bases, wrecked spaceships and other locations of fierce battles or covert operations that can, or have already turned the tide of the battle. Many bothans will die to bring you these maps and resources... ;D
Here's a map me and my friend are working on for Astraterra RPG. Because Astraterra is an RPG for all ages, significant amount of the players are school kids and therefore we wanted to have some kind of light educative aspect in this map and adventure. I don't remember exactly where the idea about using colors came, but we ended up using the colors of the rainbow, or in other words prism 2016-02-29 00:47:49 +0000 UTC View Post
This three-level dungeon – well, two dungeon levels plus one ground level, to be precise – anyway, this dungeon was a sudden side project I did. The idea was to experiment with kind of map "triptychs". The idea is that I would start making maps with three levels, locations, etc. Then you could mix and match different parts from different maps. Take an old mine from one, caverns from another...
2016-02-25 23:58:42 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's a map I'm working on and hopefully get it done sometime this week. This is for an adventure I'm making with a friend for Astraterra RPG that is a science fantasy with steampunk elements. The world is set on a broken ringworld that has shattered into thousands of islands - the smallest are floating rocks and the largest are as big as whole continents - floating in a vast blue sky. We are ...
2016-02-24 22:47:47 +0000 UTC View Post
For a while already I have wanted to make a map of a building that's built on top of a mesa. I thought that it would be a cool idea to have a draw bridge connecting the mesa to a road leading to the fort.
When I started drawing this, I did not have a very good idea of whether this is going to be a fantasy or a scifi map. I was suggested that this is a castle of the desert dwarves. ...
Here it is. The result of achieving my first equipment upgrade goal at $40 per Creation tier. I gave it a quick test and I really love it. Big thanks to all of you for your patronage! Next up is a new A3 / tabloid sized scanner, to replace my old one, so it would be easier to scan big "kingsize" maps. And achieving that goal is only a few bucks away. Thanks again! You are awesome! - Miska
2016-02-20 11:04:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's a map I've been doing over a couple days at work on my breaks. I wanted to make a solitary fort or monastery built on top of a mesa. Someone on Twitter commented that it looks dwarven and mentioned desert dwarves. I fell in love with the idea immediately and I guess this is a castle of the desert dwarves :) There's probably coming one other map before I get this done, especially now that...
2016-02-17 15:25:43 +0000 UTC View Post
The Temple of Shattered Minds by James J. Haeck
is a D&D5 adventure for 5th level characters, and I did this regional map for the adventure a while back. The Temple of Shattered Minds is now available through the DMs Guild here: http://www.dmsguild.com/product/174389/The-Temple-of...
Here’s a map of an evacuated rebel base with some supplies still left for loot. I did this awhile back for Steve Barr, one of my $5 tier patrons as an Instant Reward and it’s shared with a permission.
I hope you like it
- Miska
2016-02-15 15:42:43 +0000 UTC View Post
This map was my first practice on an isometric grid and I have actually learned a thing or two from that. One thing is that I should not do the shading on gridded paper, because it fades away when I edit the grids out leaving me with a coarse looking black and white line art.
I didn’t actually get isometric grid paper on purpose. Instead I happened to buy a drawing pad with a mix of va...
In the city of Vasciza all criminals are not tried in the court. Crimes commited against people who have faith in the old gods are taken into the Temple of Judgement. There the devout priests of Vaaka – the blind god with a black and a white hand – will bring the felons before the avatar of Vaaka, who will decide their final fate and judgement in an age-old ceremony of sentencing.<...
2016-02-11 01:36:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's something I'm working on. I'm not a big fan of isometric dungeons and such, as I think they look nice, but are not as practical as top view maps, but this is an interesting challenge to do. Let's see what comes out of this.
2016-02-08 11:34:19 +0000 UTC View Post
My second month on Patreon is now done and I'm getting more familiar with Patreon and the tools I'm using. I've experimented with different background textures and coloring maps in Photoshop. This "post-production" adds a little to the time required per map, but I think it also gives some added value to you, my patrons.
I thank you all for your support! It's ...
2016-02-03 07:34:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Something I drew to study an idea I have. Let's see if this - or another map based on this one - ends up as an actual adventure map at some point.
2016-02-02 13:09:00 +0000 UTC View Post
My second die-drop table ever is finally done. This was supposed to be the last map/resource for January, but I had a pretty hectic week and I had to push this over the weekend.
This time there isn't really a story for this piece of work, partly because it's intention is in a way to help creating stories through various random encounters and locations it ...
2016-02-01 22:36:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's the last release of the month getting done. I must honestly say that I really like how the paneling pattern is turning out. After I get the pattern done I'll scan this and finish it in Photoshop by adding more clearer division for different results and boxes for their descriptions. I'm really excited to see how this will turn out in the end. This is the second die-drop table for me after...
2016-01-30 00:44:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Those Meddling Orcs...
A band of low-life orc bandits has settled into a ruined fort nearby. They are interfering with the Rogue's Guilds businesses and something must be done to the meddling orcs. Fortunately the Rogue's Guild has used the fort earlier for its own dealings and knows it pretty well.
Here are the Rogue's Guild's top 5 entrances to ruined fort:
1. Main gat...
2016-01-28 22:20:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's a little ship deckplan, or a "wreck crawling" map that I started today. There are signs of high energy blasts in this ships hull and one of the hits has breached the ships reactor core making things a bit more difficult than usually.
Also, I tried to polish the technique for the "panel pattern" for the empty parts of the ship and I think that finer line works much bette...
2016-01-28 14:40:16 +0000 UTC View Post