Appreciation post: My old graph paper maps versus my new digital ones
I spent years drawing my fantasy world on graph paper, you know, the kind with the little blue squares. It felt right, like I was some old timey explorer. But last month I got a cheap drawing tablet for my birthday, and I tried making a map in Krita (it's free, which is nice). The difference is huge. With the paper, if I messed up a coastline, I had to erase and hope the paper didn't tear. With the digital layer, I can just nudge a whole mountain range over without a trace. I redrew the entire river system for my main continent in about an hour, something that would have taken me a whole weekend and a lot of white-out on paper. Has anyone else made this switch and found one specific tool, like the layer function, that just made everything click?