Fantasy Mapping (Wesley Jones)

In Fantasy Mapping, artist Wesley Jones' goal is to cover every aspect of the titled topic, to include:

- world building,

- geography, 

- tools & materials,

- map components, 

- styling, lettering & colouring,

- composition, and

- finished maps.

This book is a mixed bag. Some of the tips were aspects I hadn't considered; I appreciated that. And I liked that about half of the book was the final chapter, where he gave many examples of finished maps (complete with world-building backstory) in different styles. On the other hand, a lot of the book seemed too basic; tips like ""there are many different software programs available for digital art . . . each program has its strengths, so it is okay to use multiple programs to get good results." Fine and good, but that left me wanting more. And while some art tutorials were there, they were glossed over. That may be appropriate for the topic at hand, but I felt this could be been better.

Rating: C+