It seems ok for a base map but it's very blurry. So, it's hard to tell.
In a current campaign my character has recently become knighted and steward of a village. Last night when I had some downtime in the game session I sketched a map of the place.
karta_ostergard.jpg
A friend of mine has the paper now and has promised to scan it in for me so I have something better to work with.
I'm planning to use this as a base for a map drawn in gimp. This will be my first serious attempt at computer drawing (I've always put it off because I don't have a drawing pad, but now I figure I should give it a try anyway). I'm thinking I'll draw elements like houses and trees and use them as brushes. The compass rose is something I should probably do at least part of in a vector graphic program, but I suck at handling those >.<
Any tips, tricks and opinions are super welcome!
It seems ok for a base map but it's very blurry. So, it's hard to tell.
That's true. I've received the scan today, which is A LOT clearer
I don't seem to be able to include it now, but I'll make another attempt when I'm at home.
Here we go:
ostergard.png
Better?
I'm thinking I should attempt to do the compass rose in inkscape and the map itself in gimp. Anyone have any good tutorials to point med to?
I don't use these software so I can't really give a lot of advices but I found some things that might interest you.
http://www.cartographersguild.com/ma...buildings.html
http://www.cartographersguild.com/to...buildings.html
What are the curved lines along the river and the road ? Did you tried to make a topographic map?
The curved lines are very poor attempts at drawing fields.
I know they're probably not realistic in the least, but they're at least better than the yellow squares visible in all the town/village maps from my teenage years I'm hoping to figure out a way to improve them while I'm in the process of digitizing the map.
An update:
ostergard.png
I've worked on the compass rose, using gimp. I really didn't seem to get along with inkscape at all, so I've given that up for the moment.
The heraldic shield will need the sword and sledgehammer. Also some effects. I saw a mini-tutorial on heraldic shields somewhere around here a few days ago. I'm gonna try to find that again, I think.
The tutorial was on Arsheesh's Miscellaneous tutorial thread probably.
I was going to ask, why do the Rose and heraldry on the computer unlike the rest of the map?
Yup, that was the tut I was looking for! Thank you.
I will be doing all of it on the computer, but the heraldry was the most fun to begin with
So far I've been doing free-hand drawing, because I don't know the tools well enough to know if there's a better way. Exception being the circle, obviously.
Am I doing alright so far? It's taken about three hours to make the compass rose, but I guess I'm getting faster as I practice.
I'm gonna try to use paths for the river. Which other tools are suitable for different parts of the map?
I think you should get rid of the with around the rose and replace it with transparency if possible.
A vector based program should be good with rivers to start.
To make the field you could do something like this If it's for farmland. : http://www.cartographersguild.com/cu...tml#post223169
or some 45 degree lines, it might look good.