{"id":1836218,"date":"2025-01-27T08:37:38","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T13:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1836218"},"modified":"2025-01-29T08:06:49","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T13:06:49","slug":"kathleen-jennings-shows-us-how-she-draws-a-fantasy-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2025\/01\/kathleen-jennings-shows-us-how-she-draws-a-fantasy-map\/","title":{"rendered":"Kathleen Jennings Shows Us How She Draws a Fantasy Map"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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In addition to being an author in her own right, Kathleen Jennings is an illustrator who draws maps for other fantasy novels<\/a>. For a recent work\u2014The Wild Huntress<\/em> by Emily Lloyd-Jones\u2014she takes us behind the scenes, going step by step through the process to create the map<\/a>. I always love posts like these (for previous examples, see How to Make a Fantasy Map<\/a>; Mapping An Ember in the Ashes<\/a>; Mapping The Drowning Eyes<\/a>; Mapping the Dreamlands<\/a>). I also love that she\u2019s still working with ink on paper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In addition to being an author in her own right, Kathleen Jennings is an illustrator who draws maps for other fantasy novels. For a recent work\u2014The Wild Huntress by Emily Lloyd-Jones\u2014she takes us behind the… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[87,31],"class_list":["post-1836218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-maps-and-literature","tag-fantasy-map-design","tag-fantasy-maps","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1790544,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2021\/03\/upcoming-workshops\/","url_meta":{"origin":1836218,"position":0},"title":"Upcoming Workshops","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"28 March 2021","format":"link","excerpt":"Two workshops\/courses coming in June: Australian author and illustrator Kathleen Jennings will teach a workshop on fantasy mapmaking in June: the focus of Map Making and World Building is \u201con story and art,\u201d the mapmaking illustrative rather than cartographical, and in general it seems to be about the relationship between\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Cartography"","block_context":{"text":"Cartography","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/cartography\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5940,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2014\/10\/fantasy-maps-of-us-cities\/","url_meta":{"origin":1836218,"position":1},"title":"Fantasy Maps of U.S. Cities","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"2 October 2014","format":"link","excerpt":"For another example of using fantasy map design language to create real-world maps, here's the work of geography professor Stentor Danielson, who draws maps of U.S. cities in the style of fantasy maps and sells them on Etsy. Boston, Cleveland (above), Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Washington are available. His Tumblr. 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