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My first ever hand drawn map. The battlemap is for an attack/defend scenario on the battlements of a town.
very very well done... I am studying the way you do your colors! what are your brush settings?
Cheers man Crikey, they're kind of all over the shop as like I said in the caption this is the first hand drawn map I ever did I think I was partially following one of Torstan's guides, so for the grass used a large grungy brush (think it might have been Chalk) with the edge and colour scatter turned way up, then faded it with a low opacity soft edged brush at the edges. It's all then overlayed on top of a parchment texture to give it extra detail that would otherwise take forever to replicate
