MEGANEEA IS ©2009 BY MARINA NEIRA.
Today I began to work on my first map of Meganeea. This will take a long time and even when finished it will be a kind of rough: I've thought of just a few places and landmarks I want Meganeea to have, and I will be placing those first, then creating the rest as I feel inspired, and use that finished map as a basis for drawing my own, pen-and-ink map in my usual style. It wouldn't feel right to use anything else in my books.
For those at all familiar with the story, the longer mountain range represents the Earth Dragon, and the tiny little tower on top of one of the mountains represents Davran's castle, where Soraya lives with Zad and his father. I recommend clicking on it to fully appreciate the detail. The scale is probably too big considering how vast a land Meganeea is supposed to be, but I will adjust that as I go.
The contour shapes representing mountainous areas are, too, guidelines. I have found it easier to add them in after I've placed the mountain symbols rather than before, so my method is to rough them in first, place the mountains over them, and then remove the contour shapes and redraw them to better fit my mountain ranges.
I will be adding updated versions of this map as I work on it. Stay tuned! :)
EDIT: Whoops, almost forgot to post about this. I've been adding some stuff to dA recently, and I love how this particular piece came out. Darla (along with her long-suffering, ill-humored goat Randa) is also a character from Meganeea, however she appears in one of the later books. This illustration, done in pen and ink, features them both. Just click on it for a bigger version:
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