Warning! Will Robinson! Warning!

[jfrazierjr]

Hello I'm Heathan, I'm new to the "artistic" end of map making. I personally am very good at drawing and painting, but little experience with computer art (although I will be getting a stylist for my computer soon).
I've made maps and run a game on maptools, my main interest is creating some semi-detailed maps and such for them (basically leave out everything that's interactive and add that in maptools).
Currently my pet project is a large underground ruin's inhabbited by mutant kobolds. The area the players are going to be in isn't that large map, now I've been told the best way to do that is basically using photoshop or gimp. However I have lil experience using them other then converting jpegs and stuff to png for map tools.
I also like long walks on the beach, reading to underprivliged school children, and spending time helping feed the homeless......lol j/k that's my way of sayin' I talk to much. Anyways any help you guys can offer I'd like.

Welcome to the Guild! If you want simple and quick, the fastest way would be using GIMP and RobA's Dungeon generation script. This is a great way to get a dungeon shell built in seconds(once you get GIMP set up and installed and stuff) The best thing to do is ask questions, lots of questions and we will be happy to help with the specifics.

[heathan666]

that's actually awesome, btw I have no life so I can come up with alot of questions....ummmm I like this site alot. I actually went to school years ago for graphic arts but didn't like it that much (as at the time the computer medium wasn't as open to me or interesting as it is now).
I'm also glad I looked at that forum there was a link on it that caught my eye, as well, the tutorial's one about regional maps (happens another project of mine is creating a nice map for my players of the regions).