![]() (I didn’t announce this one with a blog post.) They are included as a Photoshop. This small set of twelve wind directions and a large globe is taken from Claudius Ptolemy’s geographical account published in 1525 for Johann Koberger by Johann Grüninger. The style is charming and unique and perfect if you’re looking to map a village or a small town. It’s a comprehensive set with hundreds of houses, their lots, land, inhabitants, and various outbuildings. This is a unique urban cartography brush set based on Thomas Kensett’s “A plan of the town of New Haven” from 1806, based on James Wadsworth’s survey from 1748. Kensett: A 19th Century Urban Cartography Brush Set It is a unique approach to any fantasy map and perfect if you’re looking to create something that evokes an elegant Edo-Period style. My most extensive set to date, over 1140 brushes, allows for the creation of works that feel more like picturesque landscapes that stand apart from typical fantasy maps. The first set in a planned duo is based on 東海道分間絵図 or Map of the Tōkaidō, a 17th-century watercolor map painted enormous scrolls by Hishikawa Moronobu. Moronobu Gansai: A 17th Century Brush Set ![]() This is a great set to construct your perfect Japan-inspired fantasy map covering a range of objects. Whereas Gansai was ink and watercolor washes, this set is firmly in Hishikawa’s wheelhouse, a solid example of the ukiyo-e (浮世絵) woodblock work he made famous. This set is extracted from 東海道分間絵図 (A Charted Map of the Tōkaidō). The second set in The Moronobu Duo is based on the 17th-century work of Hishikawa Moronobu. Moronobu Mokuhanga: A 17th Century Brush Set Links below will go to individual posts with information about the set, its history, and links to download. All my brushes are released under a CC0 License and are free for personal or commercial use. Here you will find brush sets and tools to create fantasy maps that can add a touch of historical authenticity to any project. Remember, they’re black, so they’ll look broken viewed in some browsers, but trust me, they’re all there.Welcome to a project I call #NoBadMaps. ![]() The button below links to a ZIP file that contains a Photoshop brush set (it’ll also work with GIMP and Affinity Photo) as well as a transparent PNG in case you’re using a program that doesn’t support Adobe brush files. The three together should give you plenty of options to layout your mountains any way you want. Mountain Ranges extend between 200 and 600px. Mountain Spurs are small mountain ranges less than 200px high or wide. This is strictly focused on mountains with a small nod toward simple settlements. Hyacinth is a very focused set with 198 bushes. The result is beautiful and gives an illustrative quality to the more rigid approaches that will emerge in the future. The technique has begun to adopt some of the aspects more commonly found in hachure relief. You can still see the hill profile approach still present within the elevation, but there’s a shift happening. It’s another stunner and a transitional example of cartographic evolution. Buchurin took on the monastic name “Hyacinth,” which is where today’s set pulls its name. This set is based on an 1828 map of the road from Lhasa, Tibet, to Chengdu, China, created by the archimandrite monk Nikita Bichurin. Meet my newest free brush set, which I’m calling Hyacinth.Īll my Map Tools will always be free. Today’s set is born from one of those anomalies. There are exceptions to every rule, and those deviations often produce unique results. It was a style that would dominate until the late 19th Century and well into the early 20th Century when contour lines, hypsometric tints, and relief shading started to overtake it and become more prevalent. (Thank Tolkien.) By the 1800s, cartography had embraced hachure relief. By this time, most map styles had moved past the hill-profile approach fantasy fans are accustomed to seeing. But they’re not as easy to develop for brushes. Stylistically they’re often my favorites. Don’t get me wrong, I adore maps from this era. In fact, this is my first 19th Century set. It’s not too often I delve into the world of 19th Century maps.
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