B/W fun... Nothing real, but playing with GIMP and various tools/settings.
I am going to finish this probably early next week sometime...
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B/W fun... Nothing real, but playing with GIMP and various tools/settings.
I am going to finish this probably early next week sometime...
Interesting, so far. I look forward to seeing more. How did you do what you've got so far?
I wish I could say I was going to "finish something next week".... but I have no more than 2 hours a week to work on mapping :(
Anyway, good luck.
It is indeed interesting.
Pretty much followed the tutorial on Santhria.com. Steps so far :Quote:
Originally Posted by Karro
- New image
- Image->Mode->Greyscale
- Grey background(70% or so)
- New layer
- Trace outline in around 70% grey or whatever other way you want to generate a land mass
- Big airbrush around 30% grey (mostly white) making sure to go OUTSIDE the landmass lines a bit
- Select the Landmasses
- Save channel
- New Layer
- the Tutorial said to Airbrush (60% grey) manually the outlines to get the "inner" areas dark around the outline of the shore, but being lazy, I stroked the Selection with the Airbrush several times with a bit of jitter and Brush dynamics turned on.
- Smudge the lines toward the inside of the landmass somewhat randomly to get some color variation.
- Apply a layer mask if the layer with the stroke went outside the lines (into the sea part)
Next up is mountains... Perhaps Saturday night.
OK.. here is an update.. Not really sure I dig the mountains... but wanna get some opinions before I do more mountains... Might try ISO style mountains in the next day or three on a copy of my xcf file.
I'd be interested to see what that looks like with the black lines exchanged for white. At the moment the black lines are a little too dominant.
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Originally Posted by torstan
Hmmm .... not sure what you mean. Anyway... I played around and made some more painterly looking mountains. Big pain in ass and took way too long a time, but very nice looking I think.
I don't really like how thickly smooth the lineart seems.
I like the painterly mountains Joe - reminds me of something from a Ralph Bakshi film.
Not sure whether they fit the map though, to me eyes the perspective appears 'off' somehow, but that's probably just me.
Yea... I know what you mean.. I LOVE the mountains by them selves(I need to make some brushes out of them), but I think I made them a bit largish for this map given the "continent" or island type scale. Of course, I really have no set scale as of yet, so perhaps that's just poopooing...Quote:
Originally Posted by Steel General
The only problem with this technique is that it is WAY tiring to both arms and eyes. I zoom in to 400%, etch in my initial shape and some general color on each side and then many minutes of smudging for each mountain. What I really want to figure out is how to do mountains in the style of the Manthria map. I am soooo drooling over that map....oh well... I will keep trying....