Decorative Assets

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This page is a collection of smaller sets filled with decorative elements for your fantasy map. These will primarily feature cartouches and illustrations you can add to your mapping projects. As with all my other brush sets, these are royalty-free.

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Zannoni’s Navy: A Tall Ship Asset Pack

You asked for more ships, and you’re going to get more ships. Set sail with the 45 ships and various ship scenes featured in this brush set. The various-sized ships in this set are lifted from an 1820 reprinting of Giovanni Antonio Rizzi Zannoni’s 1812 Geographical Atlas of the Kingdom of Naples depicting the lands of Italy. Useful to add a nautical flair to the oceans of your maps.

Download the Zannoni’s Navy PNG Pack

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Here There Be Monsters: A Sea Monster Set

The oceans are vast and dangerous; bold adventurers must be warned of the creatures lurking in the deep. Here There Be Monsters is an asset set to help you do just that! This set features a wide variety of sea monsters taken from (primarily) 16th Century documents from Olaus Magnus (1539), Ferrando Bertelli (1568), Gerardus Mercator (1569), Abraham Ortelius (1570), and Johannes Baptista Vrients (1583–1608).

Download the Here There Be Monsters PNG Pack

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Bellin’s Navy: A Tall Ship Asset Pack

Oceans are now battlefields with the thirty-eight 18th-century tall ships (and a few other goodies) you’ll find in this set. This mini navy is lifted from Jacques Nicolas Bellin’s 1785 Carte Geometrique De L’Entree De La Rivierre De Bordeaux, depicting the coast of Brittany and the mouth of the Gironde estuary. A perfect way to liven up the oceans of your fantasy maps.

Download Bellin’s Navy PNG Pack

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Grüninger Compass Wind Brush Set

This small set of twelve wind directions and a large globe is taken from Claudius Ptolemy’s geographical account published in 1525 for Johann Koberger by Johann Grüninger. They are included as a Photoshop .abr file and as thirteen individual .pngs labeled by their direction. A handy addition to zhuzh up any fantasy maps.

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Coronelli Compass Rose Brush Set

A small set of six compass roses in various languages taken from the first atlas volume of the Atlante Veneto by… you guessed it, Vincenzo Coronelli! They are included as a Photoshop .abr file and as six individual .pngs labeled by their language. A handy addition to any fantasy maps.

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Support this Work

Brushes and tools released through the #NoBadMaps project will always be free and released under a public domain CC0 license. If you’d like to support the project and help me cover the cost of hosting, research, and tool-set development, I’ve put together three ways you can help, and all are detailed below.