Fort Bourtange - An Update (Patreon)

Here's where things are at with Fort Bourtange. This is all of the fort's structures, including about 40 buildings, 6 bridges, a few wells, some watch posts and a windmill. The next step is to scan all this, arrange everything and draw in the rest.

While I normally draw almost everything on paper, I'm going to be drawing the rest of this map on my pen tablet. That means the landscape, moats, trees, plants and so on. I don't think you'll notice any difference, I just want to let everyone know what the plan is.

Finally, after the lines are done, I'll be coloring it, which will probably take a week or so. I've been hoping to get this done by the end of the month and I'd say things are on track for that so far.

On a side note, here's something interesting I learned. There are about 50 residents of Fort Bourtange today. That seems like a pretty unusual place to live, right? Like, if you told someone you lived in a star fort surrounded by a moat in the Netherlands, you'd imagine that would narrow down the location quite a bit. That'd have to be here, right?

No. There are five places in the Netherlands that fit that description. Five. Fort Bourtange, Naarden, Heusden, Brielle and Willemstad. Apparently, there are thousands of Dutch people just casually living in star forts in the year 2021.

Man, I really have to go there one of these days.