Month: May 2020

This is a map of some chain of islands that I drew when I was around 10 or 11 years old. Note the excessive motorways from island to island.

This is a map of a place called Goobag. I think this was a D&D setting I ran in high school. This was a rough draft. I don’t think the campaign ever really went anywhere.

This is something I created at around age 8. It contains all the mistakes one associates with a beginning geofictician: too many grids, too many motorways, implausible coastlines… almost no names. So take heart, all ye crappy geoficticians: I have walked in your shoes.

This is a map of the continent of Tsiqeye, on the planet Rahet. I drew this in 1978. I also commonly called it Ciiqia at that time. Same name, different spelling.

This is a map of the subway system in the city of Las Aguas, loosely based on Las Vegas, I think. I drew this in 1981.

This is a map of some medieval kingdom. I think I drew it around 1982.

This is a map of the Pas Daons, a later version but still not integrated to Mahhal. I would say I drew it late high school – maybe 1983.

This is a map of a place whose name I can no longer decipher. I used to invent writing systems to go with my imaginary worlds, and this one, undocumented, is lost to time. It’s clearly inspired by Tolkien’s Elvish, but I doubt it’s in any way directly related.

The archipelago-of-islands is obviously drawing on LeGuin’s Earthsea, which I thought very highly of at the time. I’d estimate this was drawn around 1979. The rapidograph ink lines give away the period.

This is an imaginary pre-classical-era palace, on the model of ancient Greek or Minoan palaces such as were excavated at Crete. I drew this around 1978.