Pencil Sketch Overland
C.C. Charron
Surveyor
I throwing this out for critic.
I'm in a creative funk and I'm tied of staring at what I have done and not progressing.
C.C. Charron
Surveyor
I throwing this out for critic.
I'm in a creative funk and I'm tied of staring at what I have done and not progressing.
Comments
Looks very nice! Just the text doesn't quite match I think. It might be because its line width doesn't seem top match the drawing.
What was it you were trying to create beyond this? As Ralf said, it all looks good so far.
Maybe try looking through some of the symbol catalogues for similar overland styles, and see what they have you don't, perhaps? Some prehistoric-style sites, say - standing stones, stone circles, barrow mounds, that sort of thing.
Thank you for the comment Ralf.
Its not really the symbols, more the landscaping, lakes the sea, grasslands, wastelands, coasts, and others that I am stumped on.
I tried doing pencil shading, but I don't really have software that does seamless tiles well.
Overland are not my favorite thing to do.
If you don't mind having to learn a new app, there's a free bitmap editor called Krita that can help with the seamless tiles. I once used it to draw all the seamless tiles in the Ferraris Style, but I've forgotten a lot of how to use it these days.
Basically, you open or create your square tile and press SHIFT+W for the tiled view, and then you can draw on it right across the tiled view disregarding the edges.
I wish more bitmap editors provided seamless tools.
Well I'm working on the fills and drew about 8 dragons and slayed everyone of them, but at least I have a direction to head to.
Land & Water
Roads and stuff
Really lovely!
Thank you
Charron, that is a great map. I'm glad the creative stump got overturned.
Thank you.
Oh, and for artist who like making maps. Gimp is free and in 2 clicks you can make a pretty good seamless tile.
Thanks Loopysue, while i was researching Krita, I found a video on creating seamless tiles in GIMP.
Krita is better quality, but if you are happy with the GIMP version that's fine.
I'm giving Krita shot. I looks good. I just have to reserve the time to learn it.
That was the drawback. Krita works well and gives good results, but it takes a couple of days to get used to it.
This video covers the basics in Krita, though you have to use your imagination to see how it can be applied to the kind of tiles we make.
I recommend using tiles that are 1-2000 pixels square, rather than the smaller size demonstrated in the video. Use larger tiles when the pattern is something large, like rocks (when the repeat becomes rather more obvious on smaller tiles), and smaller tiles where the pattern is something fine grained, like sand or grass.
https://youtu.be/kTNRd0gBJ-8?t=76
Still working on this. iron out the bugs.