Bi-Yearly post....Trees
I was sitting in my drawing room (yes, I have a drawing room) thinking about the vast number of maps I drew just in the past five years, and that's not even my whole life. In total, I've drawn (and re-drawn) about 75-125 different maps--then I realized, drawing maps pretty much comes down to filling in the forested land with forest, and coloring the ocean a beautiful blue. Avalice aside (nicole helped me color that one, and it was experimental; I didn't draw trees, just fluffy blobs where the trees should have been. That's five maps down...the others all have wonderful, pointy, dark-green trees...at least a thousand of them on each big map...probably five-hundred or so on the small ones. Of course I'm not counting desert maps, or dungeons made (though some of those had tons of trees), or the few island maps that have very little in the way of forest...but then you consider the thick, mountainous forests of Japan (a land which I've tried to translate to D&D gold three times...think I may have it on this last go) or the Jungles of the southern lands and the thick forests of Calimoria...well...I guess I've drawn about 150,000 trees. I wish I'd planted that many...Is that a waste of time? I don't believe it is; it can be very stress relieving and in the end I have beautiful products from my quirky brain...cool. It's just a lot of freaking trees...