Svetlana K (smitchellmaps)

Happy new year! Some of my key artworks of 2025. #artvsartist #artvsartist2025

More maps and lines No AI or generator - just me, Photoshop, and Wacom tablet. And orange cat, the most critical part of my process.

Garham Village, sketch and final

As an NPC, you just gave the heroes a quest to clear this manor of monsters. But there is a catch that you didn’t mention. What is the catch?

And I did quite a few posts about my process on Patreon for the past few weeks

A handful of map lines

@MapEffects Thank you! Means a lot.

@smitchellmaps Exceptionally beautiful work as always 🍻

Meliora Region, sketch and final

@kami09478533 Classic NPC move

@smitchellmaps I force a question mark to appear above my head and wait for an adventurer to task them with investigating what happened❓

You are an NPC and you came back to your village, and you see this. Your actions?

@fugitivehistor1 Thanks a lot!

This #map is absolutely amazing. Some of @smitchellmaps past work has certainly been inspired, but this piece is a world-builder's dream. #dnd #dnd5e #ttrpg

Support me on Patreon for the whole artwork collection, bonuses and behind the scenes things.

Yggsburgh City, one of the biggest city I did, with more than 90 locations. Commissioned by @trolllordgames

The recent cleansing of the Skull Gate at the site of Two Bridges Village, though brought to rightful success, have left behind a score of lesser darkspawn yet unpurged. Take your group to the village and kill the beasts. Payment is per head, plus 1/10 of any valuables found.

@M_R_Valentine @MapEffects I mainly change the size of the icons to show the scale - smaller icons or even simple dots for continent/world maps and bigger and more detailed icons for regions. Drawing less detailed mountains, hills, forests and plains on world/continent maps also works for me!

Map drawing question: Do you think the design style of the map changes when switching from regional to continental, or even continental to a world map? If so what are some of the major differences? @MapEffects @smitchellmaps

Lands of Eastmark Region, a map I did for @trolllordgames

@thehousegame Thank you! It's digital, hand drawn in Photoshop but you can do it on paper too.

Oh. The line work is beautiful as is...digital or on paper?

@DungeonNoir Thank you!

I love maps and this artist is one of the best

Painting phase incoming

West part of Garham village Commissioned by @trolllordgames