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Westeros

The World of Ice and Fire

On this website you can get a highly detailed digital copy of my hand-drawn Westeros map that you can print as a poster. But not only that. You’ll also get a similarly detailed black-and-white lineart version of the map, an editable Photoshop file and a bunch of other things. Continue reading to get more information.

Background info: What is Westeros?

Since the first episodes of the TV show “Game of Thrones” everyone has probably heard about George R.R. Martin’s literary masterpiece “A Song of Ice and Fire”, which the show is based upon. This fantasy saga takes place in a ficticious and medieval world where surely none of us would like to spend their next vacation. A major part of the plot unfolds itself on a continent called Westeros, which is similar to Great Britain at the time of the Wars of the Roses (1455 to 1485), but which is also much larger, more complex and … more uncomfortable. There are a lot of chivalrous noble houses who are all more or less trying to make their own favourites sit on the throne of Westeros. This throne is an iron seat, forged of hundreds of swords from defeated enemies – and many of the past rulers have already cut themselves on its blades while trying to rule.
Each chapter of the novel is told from the perspective of one of the main characters – and there are many. Unlike in Tolkien’s works there are no evil Orcs or benign Elves. Instead, the characters are being described utterly realistically and are moved by understandable human conflicts.

The Map


 

My own map

When I read the novels that had been published so far in 2013, I was fascinated by the depth and amount of detail of that ficticious world. On the first pages – as in many other fantasy books – the reader finds a few sketchy maps to help him not to get lost in Westeros geographically. As perfect as the novels are, those maps are only a superficial thing. Back then I wished I had a better map and got the idea of drawing my own. Two years later this idea had been put into practice – and now a beautiful map of Westeros is decorating the wall of my living-room – 1 meter tall and hand-drawn. I scanned the drawing and had some posters made for friends and anyone who liked to have one.
I’m awfully proud about the fact that George R.R. Martin himself signed one of those posters in February 2016.

  • Poster with G.R.R. Martin's signature.
  • G.R.R. Martin is signing one of my Westeros posters and Jon Snow is watching.

 

Details

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The Iron Islands
Dorne
The Arbor
The Stepstones
Targaryen Sigil
The Stormlands
Compass Rose with the Seven
The North and Winterfell
The Westerlands
Ornaments (detail)
The Wall
The Vale of Arryn

The drawing process

Making the map took about 40 days of work. I transfered the map from the books with the help of a grid onto the large paper format with a pencil. With the help of internet research I also looked up more details and places that appear in the books but can’t be found on the maps in the novels. There is a huge fan community who have their own wikipedia pages where you can get tons of information.
There are a lot of ornamental tidbits on the map, like ships or a compass rose. I played a few artist’s tricks here: I looked for reference images online and, using Photoshop, I scaled those elements to the needed size, mirrored and printed them. Then I traced the contours of the prints with a soft pencil onto parchment paper. After that, I turned the parchment around, placed it on the correct spot on the map and re-traced it again with a pointed pen. By doing it like that, particles from the soft pencil trace are transferred from the parchment onto the final map. As the trace had been inverted, the final objects had the correct orientation.


After the first pencil drawing was done, I again traced everything with a very thin Mikron-Fineliner (0,05 mm) and filled bigger black areas (especially the ornaments on the left and right) with a Faber Castell PITT Artist Pen. Then I erased all of the pencil drawing.
Of course, my goal was to have a colorized map. I used different media for achieving that. The sea and the larger green areas were done with colored graphite powder that was rubbed onto the paper with a paper wiper. Mountains, beaches and shadows were colored with pastel crayons. For the trees and smaller opaque areas I used PITT pens again and also (a new discovery) POSCA-Markers (which were used mostly for the white waves and rivers).
Believe it or not, but because the coloring process almost obliterated the fineliner traces, I had to redraw all the black lines on the map again for a third time.
I can imagine that every true fan of art and Westeros would like to have a poster like that on their living-room wall now.


 


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Westeros Map
130 x 91 cm (15438 x 10860 px) digital JPG file. Ready to be printed.
$30 (€25)

Westeros (b&w)
Westeros map in black & white + 15 detail views.
$15 (€12)

Map as PSD file
The black & white map as an editable Photoshop file.
$24.70 (€20)

Westeros ZIP (complete)
Contains the color map, the b&w map, the PSD file and all detail views.
$61.55 (€50)

 

What’s in the box (ermm… ZIP-file)?

The ZIP-File that you can purchase doesn’t only include a colorful high-resolution map but much more:



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