Map Making Tutorial with Jessica Khoury, Part 5

We have something a little new and different for everyone on the League this week--a YouTube series on creating maps for novels! Author Jessica Khoury--who recently did a Reddit AMA on worldbuilding here--created a whole series for the blog. Please welcome here as you learn about making your own maps for your books!

Used in this tutorial:

Adobe Photoshop CS6 (check the website for a free trial version!)

Sketchy Cartography Brushes by StarRaven

For more info and resources for fantasy cartography, check out these sites!

Cartographer's Guild

ProFantasy Software (software specifically for fantasy cartography, less complex than Photoshop)

My Map Pinterest Board (a collection of maps for inspiration)

Photoshop Alternatives

Jessica Khoury is August's Affiliate Blogger. To find out more about our guest author positions here at the League, click here.

Jessica Khoury is 23 years old. She has a B. A. in English and currently lives in Toccoa, Georgia. When not writing, she's usually directing stageplays or coaching soccer. Origin is her first novel.

Origin

by Jessica Khoury

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Pia has grown up in a secret laboratory hidden deep in the Amazon rainforest. She was raised by a team of scientists who have created her to be the start of a new immortal race. But on the night of her seventeenth birthday, Pia discovers a hole in the electric fence that surrounds her sterile home--and sneaks outside the compound for the first time in her life. Free in the jungle, Pia meets Eio, a boy from a nearby village. Together, they embark on a race against time to discover the truth about Pia's origin--a truth with deadly consequences that will change their lives forever.