Ascension... let's get started

[su_liam]

The roads are big because I wasn't good to draw them :p.
They're the biggest road in the city, and maybe a little bigger than normal. But not so big like in this sketch.

Oh well, I thought they served some sort of ceremonial role.

[dr Jack]

Ok, I'm following this tutorial.

Well... easy for now, I've no river, and no hills. Only a plain circle.

I finished the first part today, I'm not sure is all right, but I hope to become better.
Tomorrow I'll do the second.

Here we're .
Ascension 1 part.jpg

A little note.
I used gray for the ground because it's constructed on a rock material, but now I'm not so sure of the color now.

[dr Jack]

Oh well, I thought they served some sort of ceremonial role.

Eh... well.
Ancient ones planne to do ceremonies when it was a siege engine city, but they use underground tunnels (maybe I'll try to map it after this first map).
Up they used only barracks and a big portal. Now the humans changed it.

[dr Jack]

Ok ok.
Some hours ago I wanted to stop... there was too much pain in creating this map :p!
But...
I'm really happy now .
Yeah, I know, thinking that you could like it is a too ambitious objective.
But maybe now the map won't offence your sense anymore.

Ascension2.jpg

- I changed a little minor road to show the old scheme, but I'm still not sure of these roads.
- I applied the GIMP mosaic filter. I love it.
- I've not finished yet, I'm at the second part of the tutorial, at the posterizing part.

[Gandwarf]

That's starting to look pretty good! Have some reputation.
The water is very blue though... you might want to soften it up a bit.

[mearrin69]

I think that's looking pretty sharp. The mosaic filter is a little random for my tastes but it definitely gives your city a distinctive look. If you can define what each of the districts do and perform a little bit of by-hand cleanup to make a few of those details pop I think this'll start to shine.
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[dr Jack]

Thanks for the reputation and the suggestion.
What you mean about soften it up?
Change a little the color? Or you mean to apply some blur or other filters?
(I'm a noob)

[Gandwarf]

Sorry, I meant softening the colors a bit (lighter colors).
It's your map though, so don't change it if you like it the way it is.

[dr Jack]

little bit of by-hand cleanup to make a few of those details pop

Noob question: clean up how?

I meant softening the colors a bit (lighter colors).

Ok thanks, I'm applaying also some filters. I'll show you when I'll finish.

[mearrin69]

Noob question: clean up how?

I just meant to maybe zoom in and erase/paint a little by hand, using the mosaic filter's results as a starting point. Maybe add an alleyway here or extend/combine buildings there. I think it'll help you define a few important areas of the city and remove that "this was generated with a filter" feeling by taking away some of the regularity.
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