you don't need to be talented. you need to be stubborn.

Started reading James S.A. Corey's The Mercy of Gods yesterday and it's been a hoot! Really loving it so far, especially the build-up of tension leading up to Part 2 of the book ✨ I'll have to get around to reading The Expanse at some point as well.

Have you checked out the tutorials on my website? They’re a good start if you want to get into mapmaking. This castle tutorial is just one of several. No paywall, all free. 🖊️ 📜 wistedt.net/tutorials #dnd #dungeonsanddragons #ttrpg #mapmaking #cartography

a lil accomplishment 🐾🩷

🐸 And here we have it, the result of a random little fixation over the past few days! A silly little game about frogs! My submission for @prokopetz.bsky.social WTFjam on itch.

#ArtvsArtist ✨

Tiny "Fellowship of the Ring" scenes in watercolor #art

Finished up a black and white commission a couple of days ago and both the client and I are quite pleased with the map. Often I feel like I'm harder to please than the people I work with, but on this occasion I'm thrilled with the final results! #map #mapmaking #mapmaker #cartography #fantasymap

Self-promotion is always hard to do, and something I often forget to do too. But here's just a lil reminder that I have a few things over in my Ko-Fi shop available if you should like to toss some coins my way (and many, many thanks in advance if you do choose to 💚) ko-fi.com/apmaps/shop

I often forget how far I've come with my art. The first is from April 2025, the second is from February 2023! Do you guys have any old/new art you could share, to show how much you've improved? 🥰 feel free to repost, so more people share their wonderful #art!

The weather outside might be bright and sunny but this map and its mountains and hills are going to end up a lot shadier today! #fantasymap #wip #mapmaking #humanmade

Finally at the shading stage! The linework is done, for now (I'll probably add a bunch of labels later once I've thought of names) so now on to adding some shade to bring some life into it before moving on to the colour stage. Feeling pretty good about this map so far! #wip #fantasymap #humanmade

Happy Easter everyone :) #map #mapmaking #mapmaker #cartography

A mappy (almost) Easter weekend to everyone! ✨🥚 Getting my well-wishes in early in case I accidentally close my bluesky tab and forget to open it again for weeks 😅 #wip #mapmaker #digitalcartography #fantasymap

i think about this image daily

In a week from now I'll be handing over my keys and saying goodbye to Denmark and the 7 square metres of personal space that I've been renting, but in the meantime I can reflect on life and eat pastries while reading in a café ✨

Mona Lisa, Mistress of Magick

have a little break on me, here are some pictures from when my cats were kittens 💕

I hope everyone has a wonderful new year ✨ Last year was a bit of a mixed bag for me and I didn't get a lot of art done, but at least I finished up my Danish courses with fairly good grades on the final exams. Another thing I'm proud of is reading 43 books in '24 and in 3 different languages!

I finished the map of Japan 🥳 people really liked it at my last few conventions 🥹 #pixelart

how can one lil baby so perfectly capture the spirit of the season

I believe I promised ducks at one point so here you go 🦆

I'm quite thrilled to have two of my maps in a shiny book such as this! Also, a big thank you to the other wonderful mapper, Soraya Corcoran, for recommending me ☺️

hello bluesky🦋

Been drawing a whole lot of squiggly lines in the sea today. Still a heck of a lot more left to go. #cartography #mapmaking

Back in Denmark again, so no more cat pics until around Christmas, I'm afraid. Maybe I'll find some ducks to share instead.

Some more floof to hopefully brighten your day a smidge 🌞

Here, have a majestic floof ✨

Writing sprints are such a wonderfully effective way of getting work done. I'm a bit behind on my #novelember goals since I kind of got horribly distracted as November started, but with a bit of sprinting I'm at 3k words and around 4 more sprints should be enough to catch up.

I ain't got the foggiest clue what hat I pulled my name out of. All I know is that the names I had before Dhelian were cringe and shall forever remain unmentioned 😅

I made a starter pack of Fantasy Worldbuilders, and I'd love to add more! All kinds welcome! If you post about your fantasy world on bluesky, leave a comment on this post introducing yourself and your world, I'd be happy to add you! ❤️ I'm also working on starter packs for queer & sci fi worlds

Hiii new people, thank you everyone for 100 followers! Time to re-introduce myself! I'm a worldbuilder, artist, and animal enthusiast who is working on a long-term worldbuilding project, the Yonderverse! ☕ ko-fi.com/mochimanoban 🪐 www.worldanvil.com/w/yonderverse

Thank you so much to everyone who's come on this little planetary journey with me! Here's the last planet: Neptune! I tried so many water textures for this one, before going for a sun shining on the sea vibe because I just can't resist a sparkle or twenty. #Art #PixelArt #SpaceArt #SciFi 👩‍🚀🛰️✨🪐🌊

"Yes I approve the draft of this PDF, send it to the printers"

Been doing a real good job of reading novels as of late. It's nice to finally have a solid reading habit. Just finished reading the 5th book of this autumn and now next on the list of things to read is Legends & Lattes.

Hello there! It is I, Dhel, a drawer of maps and writer of words. Looking forward to sharing stuff and interacting with y'all! Here, have some links: www.instagram.com/dheliansmaps/ www.worldanvil.com/author/Dhelian www.patreon.com/dhelian ko-fi.com/dhelian