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AP. Cartography
@ap-cartography.bsky.social
🇬🇧 UK
💚 She/her
🗺️ Fantasy Mapmaker
📝 Solo RPG Maker, Player and Enthusiast
✍🏼 All art I post is made by me, a human. No room for AI here.

https://ap-cartography.carrd.co/
Example of a previous attempt at some kind of early map scratched into a cliff face - although this one had been by a child who developed a love of maps and became a cartographer. This is a simplification of the valley he could see from the mountainside behind his home.
November 3, 2025 at 7:42 AM
I forgot to mention I made a full colour map for this (totally optional for your game) and there is a black and white version for you to print and colour in too! 🧡
October 25, 2025 at 11:03 AM
For a little while now I've wanted to attempt to make a dungeon map, and when I saw molomoot's Crossword Dungeons, I knew I just had to try it. I love this idea and it was so fun to do! It might not make much sense, and I probably made mistakes, but here you go....my first dungeon map!
September 30, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Happy Hobbit Day, to any fellow Tolkien nerds! 💚 Here's a throwback to a fan map of The Shire that I still kinda want to rework the framing of. There will come a day when I do that, but it is not this day!
September 22, 2025 at 1:32 PM
One more week to go! I am so ready to get cosy and whimsical. ✨
September 7, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Hello there! I randomly decided it was past time I did a face reveal of the human behind the art and posts on here. So hi, I'm AP! 👋
September 3, 2025 at 10:38 AM
The floating library that features on the original Wandering Library one page RPG has had an upgrade! ✨

Left : original from two years ago
Right : new and updated version

How would your Wandering Library travel?
August 11, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Did someone say Sunday Punday? No? Oh. Well here you go anyway.

Something made at the end of last year for a friend from a prompt of theirs as part of a "Secret Santa Shitty Art" thing.
July 20, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Progress for the new one-page solo RPG is being made! Meet the three types of guardian you will be able to choose to play as in "Little Glade Guardian". From left to right we have: Pinekin, Mossling, and Leafren. Which would you choose? 💚
July 16, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Drawing random maps and wondering about the story behind them is quite fun. Is an inaccurate or badly drawn map done on purpose or not? Maybe by a lazy or underpaid cartographer?

I've just added this map into my Ko-Fi shop, for use in your own Non-Commercial game or story: ko-fi.com/s/26dadac008
June 17, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Apologies for posting about this again, but I just really wanted to share these silly lil guys. This was an idea given by my wonderful partner. 💚

I wonder what could be on the scroll...maybe a spell? Grandma's secret recipe? Plans for world domination? Or something else...
June 13, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Map frames are something I need to work on more but I'm rather liking this one so far! Especially this lil fella. Frames are quite often the last thing I consider when mapmaking, but I wanted to work on this one first this time. I might add to it later, but for now, I am content with it how it is.
June 6, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Aw hope you find some time to rest and do creative things soon! But yeah it's so cool to see and is a great little challenge too. I forgot to post the other one I did with a different palette..
I cheated with this one though as I did use some multiply and airbrushing! xD
May 18, 2025 at 10:22 AM
This could be the most colourful settlement I've ever made. I hadn't been sure about it at first, but I am rather liking it so far!

#wip #fantasymap #humanmade
May 8, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Self-promotion is always hard to do, and something I often forget to do too. But here's just a lil reminder that I have a few things over in my Ko-Fi shop available if you should like to toss some coins my way (and many, many thanks in advance if you do choose to 💚)

ko-fi.com/apmaps/shop
May 6, 2025 at 9:45 AM
The colouring is well under way! I'm not sure if this or shading is my favourite part of the process. What's yours?

#wip #fantasymap #humanmade
May 2, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Finally at the shading stage! The linework is done, for now (I'll probably add a bunch of labels later once I've thought of names) so now on to adding some shade to bring some life into it before moving on to the colour stage. Feeling pretty good about this map so far!

#wip #fantasymap #humanmade
April 29, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Slowly working on a tiny (A5) map of a city and questioning why I decided to do this. Hopefully it'll be worth it in the end, but I do need to find something to speed up the process if I want to do more cities! What would your advice be?

#wip #mapmaker #digitalcartography #fantasymap
April 17, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Inspired by a @drawfeeshow.com video where they could only use 5 colours to make art, I set up this same challenge for me and some friends to have fun with. It really is a challenge! Here's the first piece from the first palette (which I've titled "Jean E. In A Bottle" because I like puns)
April 10, 2025 at 7:57 AM
My recent game fixation has been 'Tiny Glade' by @pouncelight.bsky.social Not only is this a cute creative game to play in, it's a great source for inspiration and for making references to draw from! Can highly recommend. 💚

- Drawn in Procreate by me, a human -
April 2, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Halfway through a free digital art summit being run by TwoTap, and today's session on making a cute monster was so much fun to watch I just had to try it myself. It's far from perfect but I like this lil guy so felt like sharing with you all!

- Drawn in Procreate. Human made. -
March 25, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Today hasn't been a great day, but I finished off the first little piece of something new I'm working on and I gotta say....I love it....which is always a little weird to say about my own work, but there it is! This is just a little snippet of the first of six pieces I'll be making eventually.
March 20, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Motivation, inspiration, energy....all these things have been somewhat lacking this week. But rather than dwelling on that...here, have a look at a dwelling!

This is the family home of Thorvik Dalver, a traveling cartographer who has since left on a grand mapmaking journey.

(Drawn in Procreate)
February 28, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Outside of mapping, I have discovered the joy of making cute things with crochet. This was my latest creation that still makes me happy when I look at it, even if it's far from perfect. What other creative hobbies do you have?

(Body was made from the Chibi Basic Body crochet pattern by Crochethea)
February 5, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Not gonna lie, this week has been....challenging. However, I've finally gotten started on my first lil map of 2025 and that feels pretty good. So here's a lil sneaky peek at the current WIP.

Hope you're all looking after yourselves as best you can out there!
January 23, 2025 at 4:53 PM