Fantasy Map Podcast

Episode #11: Dr. John Wyatt a.k.a. Surprised Eel Maps

John is a full-time cartographer and an academic historian who, as the name suggest, not-so-surprisingly devoted his career to eels and their influence on the old world.

Episode #10: Arturo a.k.a. @nerdymaps

In this episode with Arturo we talk through his overnight leap to the forefront of Instagram fantasy cartography scene, growing his map business from a side hustle to ful

Episode #9: Dominique Strange a.k.a. @domino44maps

In this battle of the timezones, Leander and Dominique dive directly into project pricing, client work, dragons and compass roses and work through Dominique's history and

Episode #8: Leander & Filip vs. 2025

In this episode we discuss the plans for 2025 as well as our personal projects and a bit of some behind-the-scenes of our mundane existences. Enjoy!

Episode #7: Tom Brossard a.k.a. @mapsbyowen

Our unplanned Christmas special featuring Tom — cartographer well-known for his distinct style featuring magic mushroom villages and googly-eyed seamonsters. He supports

Episode #6: Chloe a.k.a. @chloethecartographer

A GMT-based artist-slash-physicist with incredible portfolio of art styles. We talk dark client-works, thickening lines in Photoshop, wordlbuilding robot gnomes and makin

Episode #5: Karin Höijer a.k.a. @karin_hoijer

This episode we dive in to the realms of dragons and mythical beasts and how they can be used in the not-so-fantastical contemporary world entangled by processes. Karin i

Episode #4: Rodney Elliot a.k.a. @wyrmwoodmaps

When you read a story, you’re taking the reader by the hand and showing them your world. Give them a map and they are free to go wherever they want. To quote our fourth g

Episode #3: Paul Duvall a.k.a. @ways.unseen

In this episode we bring back the good ol’ Micron pens and share the story of inktober-to-master-cartographer Paul. We talk all about the classic top-down dungeon maps, d

Episode #2: Scott Mayfield a.k.a. @skawtsalot.studio

In this episode we chat with veteran cartographer & world-builder Scott Mayfield about his work with Atlassian & Valiantys, using Inkarnate as well as diving deeper in pe

Episode #1: The Intro

This is a very first episode of the Fantasy Maps Podcast where you can meet your hosts Leander (@treepainter) & Filip (@filipsersik). We are discussing our brackground st