Nate Smith
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How To Weather The Storm Of Prevailing Winds and Oceanic Currents
The worlds weather is driven by both the Earth’s rotation and the seasonal variation in solar energy that each hemisphere absorbs. However patterns do form in the weather and they will play an important role…
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Landscaping Your World Map
Continuing on from last week’s tutorial on Tectonic plates we’re looking at how the plates affect the landscape of your world and so the environment your characters will see and experience. If you’re following the…
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Adding Tectonic Plates To Your World Map
Tectonic Plates are sections of a planet’s lithosphere (the crust and mantle of a planet) that your world continent will then sit upon. They are what separate the land from the molten lava below. Because…
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Over 247 Deviants Watch The World Builders Guild
Ed: As of 18/11/2013 we have 995 watchers! The World Builders Guild is a DeviantART group that is dedicated to collecting great artwork that will inspire world building. If you’v never heard of DeviantART then it…
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World Building Geography by Brandon Sanderson
Brandon Sanderson (the writer of Mistborn and the final 3 books of Robert Jordan’s “The Wheel Of Time” series) gives a lecture on basic geography for world building maps. He covers some very basic tips…
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How To Draw Land
A simple illustration technique for representing landmass on a map. Also helps to create interesting organic coastlines.