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St. Peter's Basilica - Patrons' Edition
🕑 Added 2026-01-15 13:49:22 +0000 UTCSt. Peter's Basilica is finished. Well, provisionally finished. I really do hate posting the map without the background and surrounding buildings, but it's necessary for now and I want to explain why.
Since I'm drawing all of Vatican City, I will eventually draw each building, but I need to draw them separately, because, in my experience, drawing part of a building is a good way to end up redrawing it later. And the map above includes not only the basilica, but part of the sacristy, the Apostolic Palace and a tiny bit of the Sistine Chapel. So I need to finish those first, then add them to this map, then draw in the background around them. In the long run, this is what gets Vatican City done faster and I hope everyone is okay with that.
Next up, I'll be drawing a map of Mesa Verde, an ancient Native American settlement carved into a cliffside in the Rocky Mountains. I'll try to draw it as it was when it was occupied, which I should be able to do, since archaeologists seem to have figured out what most of the buildings were for.
Anyway, I hope you like the basilica and I promise you that the surroundings will be drawn in eventually. I gave the map a lot of extra love and I hope you feel it was worth the time and effort. Either way, let me know what you think!
Download from Google Drive here (under NEWEST PATRON CONTENT).
Comments
Milby's Maps
Thanks! Yep, I drew the stairs to the roof, so I do have to draw the roof at some point. I'll draw the dome as well. And the grottoes and the roman crypts. It's all getting done.
Milby's Maps
I'm just saying, there is literally room to fight a dragon in there. Like, plenty of room.
Sam Gardner
Finally, a map suitable for truly epic level play.
Kenneth Schleich
Incredible. 11/10. Any chance there will be a rooftop map to go with this? My primary memory from climbing the dome is looking out over the roof of the basilica and thinking "what a great location for a shootout with some otherworldly horror". π€£
