Magical Forest Map

I live in "Minor Garden Woods" which is not so foresty. I can add more trees to my map to make it a little more woodsy. Would that be okay? Also, would paper cut from a brown paper bag and aged be okay?

Ooooh! Good idea to use a paper bag! Or singe the edges of your paper to brown it.

Its ok if its only a little foresty, but you are welcome to add trees too. ^_^ And absolutely, a paper bag is a good idea!

And just this weekend I rewrote my wishlist to include handdrawn maps, so Im way excited for this! :D

I was having major trouble starting on this project. I tend to be just the slightest (ahem...) bit OCD about some things and it was killing me that I couldn't get my preliminary planning sketches accurate or to scale to include the whole 'forest'. The 15 acres has spots that are filled with (too many) buildings in places and with trees/plants in others and with just bare grass in other (seemingly VAST when I am doing the sketches!) spaces. To be accurate, my paper would have to be way too big and the features would have to be way too small. Not an attractive map at all! , But this morning, after distressing the paper and spreading some inks on it, I had a breakthrough. There is really no reason my map has to be accurate! So I am leaving off most, if not all of the buildings, and compressing the more interesting, 'nature-y' parts of the landscape to fit to the paper. Ahhhh... I feel so much better. LOL!

XD I'm glad you found a solution that worked for you! Its true, map-drawing is not something most of us have lots of experience with, so we're all learning new skills here. ^_^

Working on mine. THIS IS SO FUN!!! I feel like a kid again :)

I've come up with so many ideas and I'm shoving them all in my map! Villages, a cemetery, an observatory, a lighthouse, and of course castles and swamplands!