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    Guild Artisan Freodin's Avatar
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    I used GIMP for the drawing... every single little pixel drawn by hand (and mouse). I started of with broad river shapes that were selected and stroked... but it didn't just come out as I wanted to. So I traced every river's brink by hand to get it right. Hills and cities are also handdrawn and shaded.

    Text was placed in Inkscape with the "Roman Antique" font... but I found that, as I don't use curves or fancy angles, GIMP does the job quite well, if a little more awkward when I need to reposition names.... which I had to do in the version you see posted.

    Right now I am trying to draw the cartouches, but I am not quite pleased with the results yet. I am trying to reproduce the crosshatching technique that is used for shading in engravings... and it seems I must do that by hand also.
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    Freodin, kudos.

    Now I'm even more interested to see how this turns out!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Freodin View Post
    I used GIMP for the drawing... every single little pixel drawn by hand (and mouse).
    That's just, wow! It appears every city icon, and even every tree was drawn separately.... No stamping/cloning?!

    And can I interpret your comment to mean no tablet either? If so... wow!

    -Rob A>

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    That really is amazing.

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