Mapping Goat island - With real goats!

[Jalyha]

Thanks Korash!

... I was leaning toward the northern end as well


I'm... probably doing something wrong, but every time I set a layer to "overlay" (I'm using gimp) when I merge it, later, it doesn't look the same.. it looks like it would if I had it set to normal?

I'm too lazy to figure out why, so I've just been avoiding it

But I'm reading the tutorial (and a few others that caught my eye again) right now!

[Jalyha]

My biggest problem is that it is VERY hard to control my 7 year old mouse, and I have no other way to put lines/colors into my laptop.

I did a quick minute-sketch of goat island (more detailed than my gimp version, but not by much)

The problem I hit is getting it on the computer. The only thing I have is my cruddy webcam, and this is the result:



I think I may have to invest in some sort of drawing equipment

[Azélor]

My biggest problem is that it is VERY hard to control my 7 year old mouse, and I have no other way to put lines/colors into my laptop.
I think I may have to invest in some sort of drawing equipment

then wait a bit, mine celebrated her 12th birthday and she's pretty docile.
The overall quality is poor. You could try taking a picture with a camera.

[Jalyha]

Lol we don't have meeces we has a hamster

I haven't got a digital camera, a scanner, a cell phone, or a tablet, lol. I'm pretty much living in the dark ages.

I looked at some electronics at walmart today but idk what to get, even if I could afford it :/

[Lingon]

I'd be very interested in seeing a more or less completely hand-painted map by you A scanner is pretty much a necessary investment then though. A4 scanners aren't too bad in price, especially if you're ok with doing some touch-ups and color tweaks in GIMP or such, and you can still scan larger paintings with it by pasting together segments.

[Jalyha]

Is that allowed? That would be sooooo much easier...


A4 = one of those hand-held scanner thingies?

[Falconius]

A4 refers to the paper size, or in the case of the scanner the size of the bed. A4 is the regular letter size. I'd recommend getting a little bigger one than that ideally as long as the price is ok. I don't even think they make those hand scanner things anymore tbh.

[Cunning Cartographer]

Is that allowed? That would be sooooo much easier...

Not entirely sure what kind of place you think this is You could draw a map in mud and take a picture of it and uploaded it if you wanted to. People just come here to learn how to get better at drawing maps

[Gamerprinter]

A4 refers to the paper size, or in the case of the scanner the size of the bed. A4 is the regular letter size. I'd recommend getting a little bigger one than that ideally as long as the price is ok. I don't even think they make those hand scanner things anymore tbh.

Yeah, I am so spoiled, I have a 36 inch wide roll top style full color scanner (limited 300 ppi), its a part of my Canon IP 760 inkjet printer (mounted above the printer) - I can scan up to 36 inches by 10+ feet! An 11 x 17 flatbed scanner used to be my "large format scanner" - now I'm just spoiled.

@ Jalyha - I don't have (nor want) a cell phone either. I have a drawing tablet I never use - so personal electronics, I lack, but studio level graphic electronics, I have in spades.

[Lingon]

There are no rules, Jalyha All my maps are painted with watercolors, ink, pencil, and/or acrylics, with some additions digitally. The Antillia map has a lot of digital stuff (for me), others have almost nothing except a color restoration after scanning. And A4 is 210x297mm, standard printer paper. From what I found when I bought my scanner, they get exponentially more expensive as you go up in size (well, haven't done the math, and there are exceptions of course, but you get my point…).