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Vardah Final. This style is heavy on hand drawing and color/texture balancing. I made this in Photoshop 7 using a WACOM intuos4 digital pen tablet.
Cool. What software did you use in making this one?
I made this in Photoshop 7 using my new WACOM intuos4 digital tablet. I am glad you like it.
Wow! Did not use any paper? Only the digital tablet?
The first try at this style was pen, paper, then scan/edit. I even used some of those hand-drawn elements in the first version of this map, but I later replaced the older scanned elements with new tablet drawn elements... so yes the final version is 100% digital tablet in Photoshop 7 :-)