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Joining the Cartographers' Guild

Over the last few months I found this really interesting website called the Cartographers' Guild, a large community forum where people go to share their fantasy map projects and post interesting tips on how to improve their fantasy map drawing skills.

What particularly interested me on this site was a post from one of the community members there on the forum about the "Eriond" fantasy map project that they were working on, which featured a tutorial on how to create photorealistic fantasy maps in the GIMP program. This would prove to be of big use for the Youtubia fantasy map project that I am currently working on.  

At an important time where I am currently working on my business idea, I believe that it is important for me to be part of a place where I can share my ideas and be able to build business relationships with other like-minded people in the fantasy world. 

Therefore, I have decided to join the Cartographers' Guild forum and I hope to be able to post my fantasy map projects there as well as on this blog. Conversely, members of the Guild can now explore my blog and can keep an eye out on things in this space. 

Up and away we go,

Jakub

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