A hybrid hand drawn CC3+ map - Road to Tiamis
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This is a map that started as a hand drawn response to a friendly challenge from one of the Community Leaders over at the Guild. ChickPea wished to see me draw a map by hand, so I did - graphite on paper - here scanned in and imperfectly stitched together from three parts.
I wasn't going to show it here at all, because it isn't a 100% CC3 map, but once I started trying to put the text on it and make the drawing more moody and stressed in GIMP, I discovered very quickly that CC3 beats GIMP hands down on both those counts
Here it is with a sheet of Solid Black 30 laid over the top of it and a linear burn blend mode applied. The text has a glow effect applied - this effect in particular was actually impossible to emulate in GIMP.
I wasn't going to show it here at all, because it isn't a 100% CC3 map, but once I started trying to put the text on it and make the drawing more moody and stressed in GIMP, I discovered very quickly that CC3 beats GIMP hands down on both those counts
Here it is with a sheet of Solid Black 30 laid over the top of it and a linear burn blend mode applied. The text has a glow effect applied - this effect in particular was actually impossible to emulate in GIMP.
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I still can't wrap my mind around how anyone can do anything like that using physical media.
I told the truth about why I'd turned to CC3for the text effects. Compared with CC3, GIMP is pretty messy with glow. It involves 2 or 3 layers (sheets to us), and you have to do it all over again if you change your mind about the way you want it to look, instead of adjusting a single glow effect on a single sheet.
All this hand drawing stuff started when I drew those hills that I want to turn into connecting symbols, and showed them at the Guild to ask people what they thought of them. They are, after all, known for their beautiful mountains - the PS users I mean
I didn't think my hills were particularly good, but I was surprised by the overwhelming reaction I got. It does seem to me that CC3 users have been stereotyped as people who simply can't draw, which is a terrible shame, as I am absolutely certain that that I'm not the only one here who can knock out a drawing. I couldn't help but smile and rise to the challenge when ChickPea made the request
Korash, another Guild Community Leader who speaks only about once in every 5 years or so, had the right attitude I think. He encouraged me to add GIMP/Krita to my tool kit, rather than abandon CC3 (which is what several of my PS using friends suggested). I'm hoping that his attitude will spread through the ranks. Thanks Remy
Actually its a bit of a cheat. I used this (below) as basic inspiration, and interpreted a modified scene. It's a little place in the Dolomites. Surreal isn't it - the way the fields just go right up to the edge like that?
To be perfectly honest the test of a true draftsman would have been to reproduce this perfectly in every detail without tracing it, but I'm not actually good enough to do that by eye, and my printer has been out of ink for the last 9 months, so I couldn't print it out and trace it. That's one of the reasons I took the easy route and 'reinterpreted' it just a bit
Speaking of "impressive" - that photo of the farm in the Dolomites. I bet one has to be real careful when plowing the "back 40."
Thanks for the compliment
And lets just say I bet those farmers are awful careful about just how many beers they have the night before!
There are two of them, and I can see them because I know where to look! LOL!
You can see the map at a much higher resolution here.
It's a hybrid.
I started experimenting with other media to find the best way to draw new symbols for use in CC3, and I'm getting reasonably proficient with GIMP now, so it won't be long before I'm back on home ground with a few more CC3 maps in the pipeline
I will work on a better interpretation of the compass for future use, although since it is a crow, it will most likely not change that much
Now the trick is to teach myself how to draw mountains that are properly ISO in view, so that I can make proper CC3 symbols out of them in a style not dissimilar to the drawing