The Voyager’s Workshop
@wfgworkshop
My name is Wouter /vaʊˈtər/ (he/him) - Nova Scotia 🇨🇦 I create unique maps & fantasy art for tabletop players, creators & publishers (Action Fiction, Cawood Publishing, Beadle & Grimm's, WotC). No NFTs, no AI.
I am still working on the Voyager’s Guide to Guildenhof, a system agnostic TTRPG setting guide to use in your home brew campaign, or as a stop-over in between adventures. #ttrpg #worldbuilding #fantasymaps #sourcebook #noai
Here is a sneak peek at a world map & a city map that I recently completed for Krishna Patel‘s upcoming book “Brightest Burning”. As always with the creation of maps for fantasy novels, it made for an fascinating and wonderful journey! #fantasy #storytelling #cartography #mapmaking #commission #noai
There’s nothing quite like meeting up with fiends at a tavern and planning your next adventure! Keep the dice and the good times rolling! #ttrpg #cartography #handcrafted #mapmaking #noai
At the Voyager’s Workshop, my focus is primarily on fantasy art & cartography. I work with creators, authors and publishers, big and small, to help them tell meaningful handcrafted stories. I am available for projects and commissions all year round. #ttrpg #fantasymaps #fantasyart #cartography #noai
The idea behind this cartographic illustration is that in any TTRPG, your dice rolls can have a real impact on the world and the adventures you experience around the tabletop. This drawing was hand inked & coloured digitally for the print version. #ttrpg #fantasymaps #dice #handcrafted #noai
Here’s my latest private commission, which was completed this week. It provided me with a great opportunity to discover a stetting I knew very little about. Working with GMs to create maps that they use in their games is what makes these projects so special! #fantasymaps #dnd #rpg #cartography #noai
Encounter with the Demon Lord started as a traditional pencil on paper illustration that I then scanned and inked digitally in Clip Studio Paint. Eventually I also added colour and textures to give it a #vintage #fantasy #illustration look. #ttrpg #noai
From sketch to finalized inks and colours, a map can go through many changes as I travel across all the regions over and over to unravel more storytelling seeds and lore hints. Sometimes, a map needs different iterations to offer what is needed. #ttrpg #fantasyart #worldmap #handcrafted #noai
Pencil illustration side quest, maybe for another two-page adventure thingy. I’m also curious to see what this one would look like as a black & white inked illustration so who knows where this will take me. The process is the journey! #pencil #fantasyart #handcrafter #ttrpg #visualstoryteller #noai
There are just over 8 hours left on the Wicked Night - Holy Knights Kickstarter by @blindcoco.bsky.social . This turn based RPG will feature this map by yours truly, but in colour for its final iteration! www.kickstarter.com/projects/bli... #rpg #cartography #indiegames #handcrafted #noai
If you are rolling dice with your favourite people tonight, I wish the absolute best of times, whatever your TTRPG of choice is! #rpg #gamenight #fantasymaps #stroytelling #noai
Proceeding to the digital inking of a real fun private commission of a TTRPG map. This is chock full of evocative locations and places of interest! #handdrawn #fantasy #dnd #mapmaking #cartography #noai
Today’s my birthday and as a gift to you here is some advice for your party of adventurers: take maps on your journeys and, if you can, bring a duck like Quacknan the Marauder. Wishing you good times in good company around the tabletop! #ttrpg #cartography #fantasyart #commissionsopen #noai
Here’s an oldie for #ThrowbackThursday! I give you the map of Tristor, which I created for @paleogaming.bsky.social . At the time, it was the biggest map I had been commissioned to create. A fond memory of a great collaboration! #fantasymaps #ttrpg #dnd #mapmaking #commissionsopen #noai
Some TTRPG maps can show you the way, while other ones put you at the mercy of the Gods! This was a really fun and unusual private commission for a home brew adventure set in Theros! #dnd #5e #ttrpg #mapmaking #cartography #noai
I debuted my two-page module “Kaligos, Isle of the Drake King” last weekend at the Medieval Market in Halifax and I was thrilled by TTRPG game masters’ reactions and interest. Patreon supporters get access to it soon. Find it for purchase in July! #fantasymaps #anyrpg #gmtools #handcrafted #noai
Happy Friday, everyone! What adventures await you this weekend? What game are you playing? Where is your journey taking you? And what are you drinking as you play around the tabletop? #ttrpg #cartography #mapmaking #fantasyart #noai
Hand crafted map and art for lovers of fantasy storytelling - Open for commissions year round! #fantasymaps #fantasyart #ttrpg #artistforhire #noai
The Medieval Market is over and what a day it’s been! Thanks to everyone who stopped by, whether you just enjoyed looking at my art, bought something or just came to say hi. You made my day & I hope all vendors had just as much of a great experience! #fantasyart #tttrpg #mapmaking #cartography #noai
And here we go! Come and say hi at the @halcon_scificon Medieval Minimarket all day today at the Halifax Brewery Market! #fantasyart #fantasymaps #ttrpg #cartography #noai
I often compare my map making process to taking a journey in the world that is being depicted, except that i get to revisit each place a few times. I see a fantasy setting’s lore as something based on tales, rumours, myths and lived adventures! #fantasymaps #ttrpg #storytelling #cartography #noai
Here’s a preview of the map for the 2-page #TTRPG adventure I’ve been working on and that I will premiere at the Hal-Con Medieval Minimarket on June 7th! Look for it later this month on my Patreon.com/wfgWorkshop and my website thevoyagersworkshop.com #fantasymap #cartography #handcrafted #noai
This recent #commission for @actionfiction.bsky.social was a really unusual take on #mapmaking but I think we really managed to capture what the exploration of a vast dungeon can feel like while still providing GMs and players a useful tool! #fantasymap #ttrpg #cartography #dnd #5e #noai
I illustrate #fantasymaps large & small. It’s about what you are after when you hire me for a project. I bring my skills & do my very best to explore avenues you might not have thought of, but in the end, it’s about creating art that matters to you! #fantasyart #cartography #commissionsopen #noai
Working on an adventure module with an accompanying map drawn traditionally, from sketch to inking. #fantasymap #ttrpg #cartography #pencilsketch #noai
Next weekend, I will be tabling at @halconscificon.bsky.social ‘s Medieval Minimarket! Come and find me alongside lots of other awesome vendors at the Halifax Brewery Market on June 7th! Lots of maps, art prints, and more! #novascotia #fantasyart #ttrpg #supportlocal #noai
Magnamalus, the final map that I created for @action_fiction ‘s Monsters of Murka 2nd Edition. This city is a fantasy version of NYC and we decided to do a complete overhaul of the original map that I created for the 1st edition. #ttrpg #dnd #isometric #cartography #noai
An old map can lead you to ancient treasures or recall wild adventures, but if you look closely, countless other stories can be found as well! Wishing you a great weekend of adventuring! #fanatasymaps #ttrpg #mapmaking #cartography #noai
Wishing Mr. Colbert all the very best in his upcoming Middle Earth related adventures! He is a true champion of all that is good (especially tabletop role-playing games!) and I will miss his show (and Darrylgorn). The Road ever goes on! #fantasyart #ttrpg #champion #middleearth #noai