In the end I'm happy to have ditched the cobblestone in my streets. This works better to build a larger map from several mini tiles.

Another good choice (at least for tiling) was to have each mini map surrounded by streets, or paths.

doodled this today on a letter i'm sending to a friend. thought it turned out pretty okay.

It's about time, isn't it?

Yet another time I draw inspiration from Dyson Logos (if you have Mastodon, I highly recommend following: @[email protected]).

After drawing so many tiny caves, I started to feel like I didn't know what to place inside the walls. And the form factor doesn't help, because there's so much I can fit into the paper, and therefore can't rely on an interesting layout.

I eventually landed on this map: https://dysonlogos.blog/2022/01/06/heart-of-darkling-the-mushroom-caves/

Of course! Mushrooms!

Edit: Whoops. Forgot to add the image. Fixed.

Talk about inspiration.

In case you didn't know or didn't catch the reference, this is a homage to Nethack.

Not only are my cobblestones not looking great, but I've also been drawing houses that extend beyond the borders of the paper. Time to fix that.

This is looking better IMO, and I'll be able to tile them and make a big city. Win-win.

Those streets aren't working. Maybe I shouldn't be trying to draw cobblestones at all?

Any of you have ideas?

What if I really want to use a banana for determining the scale? (cmon, let's be real, you came here to talk about the drawing of a banana)

In last week's drawing, I intentionally left the tip of the coloring pencil, to achieve that. But now I decided to add a couple of notches to the drawing: on the bottom, two notches are set 1" apart, and the rectangular thing at the top is 1cm wide. That should do it, right?

About the micro-map itself... I'm not convinced about the cobblestones. At least these take a lot less time to draw than previous attempts. Still experimenting.

Just a forest path with villages on each end.

Plus a few cave doodles to fill in some gaps.