I'm making a new map for my world, so here's my process! This is for Al Nihunaq, the desert kingdom in my webcomic NIROH First, I had a few key points for this region: -An archipelago to the east -A peninsula to the north -The actual kingdom is somewhere near the center I decided to go old school with this and use my sketchbook. A lot of worldbuilders tend to spill beans or rice randomly on paper and trace over that, but I decided to use some valentines candy instead (because I ran out of rice XD). So I spilled it over and over till the general shape felt good enough. I placed kisses in a certain pattern to symbolize mountains. and then I moved a couple things till I got this. Next I traced around everything with a pencil and got the general outline of the map!
I'm going to use these as a reference for when I transfer to digital. The candy will help with the sites (the mountains, hills, lakes, etc). And we'll take it all from there