July/August 2011 Lite Challenge Entry: Berend-Jan's Herbalist Academy

[Len Wolff]

Thanks for the advice and tips. I really appreciate it.

There is a style mismatch between the hand drawn parchment look of the plans and the modern computer generated look of the colour map.

I have not thought about the mismatch in style. Good point. I do want to add a bit of posterization to the bottom part of the map. But that's just because I think that would look nice. Maybe that will also help to give it a handdrawn look. Are there any other artistic filters that I could try out?

Might be an idea to vary the grass texture a little bit. Just put a new texture on top of it and play with blending options and/or make a mask and use filter/render/clouds to break up the new grass texture.

And another great tip. This one I will definitely use this one.

the roof of the building looks tiled and flat. might be worth drawing some shadow on the roof to make it look gabled?

I still have to do all the shading. Not only in the roof, but on all buildings and on the ground. Maybe add a little extra detail, like chimneys and ventilationgrids.

It might also be fun to get some botanical images from the web to use as ornaments. If I were making this map I would start from those images to use as the basis of the style for the rest of the map. Most people have seen old botanical prints and by using that sort of style, the map will immediately say: Old and plants on a gut level.

I think I know what kind of images you're thinking of (old book images of plants and gardens), but I'm not sure that I understand what you mean with 'ornaments'. Should I use them as decoration for the map, or as a decoration for the garden? Are there any maps where you have used images as ornaments? So I can see what you mean and maybe get inspiration.

[Moe]

Are there any other artistic filters that I could try out?

I hope you don't mind I used your WIP to give you an example of a style adjustment.
It's been a quick thing and therefore is not perfect.

The layer modes, filters and any other information is included in the layer names. You only
need a parchment texture (and you obiously have one). As you can see by the layer thumbnails
I used a soft eraser - you could use layer masks of course to protect your original work.



If you want me to delete this, as I used your work without permission, just let me know!
And if you have any further questions, don't hesitate ;-)

Hopefully this brings your very interesting Herbalist Academy one step further.

>Moe