Filip Sersik

21/05/2026

Jaké statistiky z 3D a terénních tratí můžeš sledovat v RangeTrackeru? 📊

Od základního přehledu o počtu zásahů, průměrů na první, druhý a třetí šíp až po složitější scenáře - počet soustavných zásahů, srovnání první a druhé poloviny kola s rozborem, extrémy na metách nebo i logování povětrnostních podmínek. 💨

05/08/2025

Over the past couple months there have been quite a few things going on though (almost) none of them were map related. But some are of course art related and I figured I'd drop a little something which is a more of a personal art proj I've been trying to finish past couple months.

Last winter we travelled a solid portion of Portugal and I've been collecting some favourite memories and tried to turn them into children's-book-friendly illustrations.

Now, I am not a very good painter, neither an illustrator so this has been more challenging than I thought, even though I had a solid base in the photos I've taken during said trip as a visual aid.

Here's one of the top moments when we watched the sun set somewhere little north of Nazaré as a digital painting.

18/06/2025

15/06/2025

Now, I gotta say I’d hoped for a thing or two in my cartography gig, but this one blew me away and I am still hyped up & humbled by the fact that my map welcomes people at an Actual. Rennaissance. Chateau. Damn 🫡 

— the warden of Kratochvíle chateau, was kind enough to trust me with reimagining the former castle grounds, a game-hunting reserve and transforming it into a map that explores its nearly 500 years of history. The team at the castle put countless hours of work attempting to retrace the borders and the looks of the area as it was built and maintained in the 16th century. This was done using approximation based on later works, old records and talking to the direct descendants of those who live in and mained the hunting grounds.

It’s the biggest print of any of my work I’ve ever seen alive, one that I put so much work into. One where I reimagined not only the subject matter but also my drawing style. The map will welcome visitors upon entering the main entrance as well as be a part of permanent exhibition exploring the game reserve. If you're ever around the area, pass by for a visit 🏰

I’ll just leave some snapshots of the artwork and the castle to try to at least partially relay the setting of this whole thing. Also adding one very happy cartographer for scale. 🗺️

Here be dragons 🐉

05/06/2025

🪨✨ 2,600 years ago, high in the Italian Alps, someone took a rock and decided: it's mapping time.

The Bedolina Map, carved by the ancient Camunni people, might be one of the oldest known maps in existence. Was it a practical field guide or a cosmic diagram of how they saw their world? Fields, roads, villages—even irrigation systems—all chiseled into a glacier-smoothed sandstone.

This a cartography before Google Maps… or paper edition.

🔗 Dive deeper into the mysteries of this prehistoric GPS on my blog. Link in bio.

20/05/2025

Here's another commission project I've had the pleasure to work on. It's a map of the British Isles from 920 AD when they were in its time a patchwork of competing kingdoms and cultures, shaped by centuries of invasion, migration, and shifting alliances ⚔️ a melting pot of Anglo-Sadom, Celtic, Norse and Norse-Gaelic influences.

While mostly historical, there are some diversions for a purpose of home-brew TTRPG campaign 🔫

14/05/2025

Next in line of my cartographic history exploration 🐉 Here Be Dragons — sounds dramatic, right?

Despite popular belief (and a thousand fantasy memes), medieval mapmakers didn’t actually sprinkle that phrase all over their charts. In fact, it appears on exactly one known map. One. Uno. Well, actually two.

So how did we go from a single Latin scribble to a full-blown cartographic cliché? Tl;dr version: people love a good myth more than they love reading footnotes.

More on dragons, margins, and misconceptions over at my blog — you can find the link for the full article in my bio.

1️⃣ Photo - The Hunt-Lenox Globe -- the relic on which the famous phrase Hic Svnt Dracones was inscribed
2️⃣ Photo - courtesy of the one and only deagon-tamer of the fantasy cartography scene
3️⃣ Photo - the famous phrase in close up

07/05/2025

This one piece of work is of the most dearest to my humble existence. Ever since I was a kid I loved castles and chateau’s from both medieval times as well as European renaissance. Having a local warden from Kratochvíle reach out to me, it was a part of my dream come true.

The assignment was to re-create a 15th century map of the game reserve surrounding the chateau. As a foundation for this work we’ve used a 19th century map 🗺️ — likely the only map of such extent in existence.

The second reliable source were local lore-keepers and ancestors of those who still remember the House of Schwarzenberg. 🏰

Roughly 100 hours and about zillion cups of coffee ☕️later, this is what turned out as a result. I am happy to say that not only this will be a digital guide but the main purpose of the finished map will be displayed at Kratochvíle come June 2025. It’s meant to serve as a basis for exploration of chateau’s game reserve and will be a part of an expo at its grounds.

Should you find yourself around Kratochvíle, make sure to pop by for a visit — it starts mid-June 2025.

14/04/2025

A little while ago I began with a little trip down the memory lane and started tracing steps back into the history of cartography. To my surprise, it isn't only a pleasant topic to research but also I realized that the history of mapmaking really has a direct link with fantasy cartography.

No, to my bewilderment not all cartographers in the ancient worlds started drawing maps because of their passion for TTRPGs. Rather, they were just ordinary blokes with a sognoficant lack of Google maps in their lives and their work was twofold:

i. to put in perspective that which they knew, a common knowledge
ii. to learn the folklore and imagine the fantastic

Of couse, this is notthe case for all maps but a few preceeding the Greek school of reason. The piece in picture is nicknamed Imago Mundi, a clay tablet excavated on the East bank of Euphrates river in Sippar, an ancient Mesopotamian city. It likely, based on its probable dating to roughly 600 BCE it was a Babylonian endeavor to picture not only the realms known, but also those far beyond the exploratory capabilities of cartographers of that day an age. They are portrayed as mythical lands and come with lengthy Cuneiform descriptions, much like most contemporary worldbuilding efforts of D&D game masters.

For record keeping and a more detailed scrutiny ofthese historical pieces I blog. If you head to my bio links, you'll find one that will take you there in case you'd like to read more.

📷 Source: By British Museum. Object Number: 92687., Public Domain

15/03/2025

For a while I thought I'd keep this Instagram profile solely for photography, then as a diary, then photo work, then just map work. Then I realized it won't work, so w/ this post I'd like to start the new line of posting where I'll dump everything related to my creative / design part of life -- a creative dumpster 🪣 if you will.

Here is a logo and visual concept I did for my friend, fellow archer & an incredible bowmaker Zdeněk

The logo is a combination of letters that spell out BOGA — meaning “bow” 🏹 in Old Norse with textures taking inspiration in wood structures.

The Varangians were Norse warriors and traders who traveled through Eastern Europe, serving as elite mercenaries and rulers in the Kievan Rus and the Byzantine Empire. So it only seemed appropriate to pay homage to those badass band of brothers.

Zdeněk made a primitive elm longbow w/ flat limbs for me, drawing some over 40 # and shooting real fast. Something I only experienced w/ factory-made, fiberglass trad bows. His name is “Quickbeam”, a LOTR reference.