Hi Everyone

[Domino44]

Welcome to the Guild! are you going to try and create your maps on the computer or do hand draw ones?

[Garm]

I'm not sure.....probably a bit of both. My drawing skills are abysmal despite my partner being an art teacher. I have been doing a bit of drawing practice and am trying to get to at least a basic high school level of proficiency.

I'll probably do sketches for basic layout, ideas and the general shapes of the terrain and features but then work on the PC to bring them past that. I don't have a tablet so I'm stuck with a mouse which is not ideal and I currently don't know how to work GIMP but I think it will create a much more useful format. I may have to invest in a scanner so I can draw the basic shapes and scan it in as a base layer to work on.

I've just done a basic tutorial to get to know some of the features of GIMP and I think I'll be able to make passable dungeon maps in it but as there are so many other tools to do that it's not really a priority. It's town, region and country maps that I really want to get into as they are the ones that I want to custom fit to the narratives and stories.