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    Question Anyone know how to make good hand-drawn looking buildings?

    I'm making a Butch Curry style map, and want some nice buildings. I dont want just plain old lines like in Butch's vid tut, so I made my own type. But I got comments saying that the shading on them was wierd and didnt make sense (and now that I think about it i agree) I got a suggestion of using a bevel, but that makes it look too 3D-ish and not hand-drawn. I do have a drawing tablet. If anyone has some suggestions, please post! Thanks
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    Here is one in Gimp, but there should be a photoshop equivalent.

    - draw the roofs as solid coloured shapes
    - apply a bevel
    - duplicate and do an edge detect, that you invert and curve adjust (in multiply mode)
    - Gaussian blur the edge layer
    - aggressively unsharp mask the blurred layer
    - optionally perform a dilate to reduce the heaviness of the lines.

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    I tried it a bunch of times, but I can't seem to get any lines to show up at all.
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    Here's how I do it.
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    Nice. Thanks. Any idea what pattern that is in the picture?
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    Anyone else have some techniques? I'm trying to get all that I can and see which one I like best.
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    Wip theory!

    Time for some theory!
    Don't forget about common sense. I mean the shape of the houses. If you have a house L shaped or other which is not a straight line, try to make it the same width. RobA's "L" house has different width (thickness, whatever you call it) and that causes problems with the roof. Here's a graphic explanation.



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    Quote Originally Posted by Spiritless View Post
    Time for some theory!
    Don't forget about common sense. I mean the shape of the houses. If you have a house L shaped or other which is not a straight line, try to make it the same width. RobA's "L" house has different width (thickness, whatever you call it) and that causes problems with the roof. Here's a graphic explanation.



    roofs.jpg
    ... with any bevel roof technique, of course.... It is an unavoidable artifact of that process.

    -Rob A>

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