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How to Draw Forests on Fantasy Maps - Simple Organic Style for Regional Maps

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In this tutorial, I'll walk you through one of my favorite methods for drawing forests on a fantasy map. This organic, impressionist style works great for world and regional maps for your RPG campaign or novel. Best of all, once you get a feel for it the technique is pretty simple to use, and much faster than some of the other methods for drawing trees.

Let's start mapping!
Josh

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20 Comments

@CStarWest 4 months ago

I thought i was the only one who held his pencil like that (2 fingers over). 😅

Great work!

@woodenninjabuilds207 1 year ago

this is very useful and i use normal paper and It still upgrades my map amaizingly

@MattLockie 3 years ago

Always love watching your tutorials Josh, so well put together and professional - I can tell you care a lot about making them and your community :)

@themichaeljava 3 years ago

So good! I can't wait to try this out for myself. Video looks amazing, btw. Keep 'em coming, Josh! ☕️

@claudiafinger7700 3 years ago

Exactly what I've been looking for drawing forests organicly onto a mountain side. Thank you alot! ❤

@israelmorales4249 1 year ago

Great video
Thx for the advices!

@NeonBoxNado 2 years ago

Hey dude, I don’t often have this reaction… but only 1:46 minutes into this video, my first video watching your channel. I must say, I totally dig it. I said out loud “this is cool.” I like your presentation so far. I’m excited to watch your other videos. So stay tuned for any nasty grams :P.

Keep it up!

@Benck 3 years ago (edited)

love your content. Pls keep uploading new stuff ❤

@dinobee-diaries 3 years ago

Great video as always!

@Cinemka. 3 years ago

It's so cool!

@ethanplacella 3 years ago

I love it!

@gameworldgameworld9663 3 years ago

I really love ❤ this and appreciate 🙏 the work you do , and I do want to try this out but I don't know how to start
Keep up the wonderful work man , I wish you the best 👌

@spacerx 2 years ago

That looks really cool. By regional, however, you clearly mean "pretty small region" and I wonder if this could scale to a somewhat larger map, or if it wouldn't really.

@browiking318 3 years ago

Saw ur story on iG didnt know you have an yt channel.. Instant sub 🎉

@1990ArthurGM 3 years ago

That's awesome!! I've been wanting to try a new style of forest for my maps and now I have the perfect tutorial for that!! :D
I just need to get those burshes now! Do you sell the brushes sepparately or should I get them included on your Fantasy Maps pack?

@Benck 3 years ago

I live on Brazil, I am saving money (a lot of REAIS) to buy your brushes!

@Cinemka. 3 years ago

Can you make something about mountain or seacost?

@josh6386 3 years ago

Love your stuff dude!, would it be possible to release a brush set for Clip studio pro, i noticed the one in reference is only for Photoshop and procreative?

@Benck 3 years ago (edited)

do your pen have pressure sensitivity?

@Benck 3 years ago

wich dimensions do you use for your projects? I use to work on Ai so i'm not happy seeing some pixels around hahaha. Do you use to rescale your maps for printing? thanks!