New, Thankful for landing here and Desperate for Help (smile)

[Gentleastronaut]

i found this place (yaay). New to design, but have some ambitious poster projects. Been working on macromedia flash 5 for years. Slow on the gimp uptake, but just discovered inkscape. Have a new wacom tablet, learning the stylus ropes too. Main challenge is attached (and SO related to your alls last challenge).

i have a cookbook drawn map (best in the world ive seen) of african continent. Want to bend it (or retrace/redraw) into google earth and place it on the right (of stretched globe)...digitized africa and europe on the right of canvas.

Next want to 'stamp' clone the valleys, trees, rivers, mountains into general south american, central america and north america on the LEFT of the canvas: where i DONT have a map. Level of detail? ...somewhere between or along lines of the awesome: L'Arcipelago di portaovenere and isle of Arran is fine. Am i doomed to massive drawing (years of drawing/original art) or can it be done with a few weeks hard copying work? What 5-6 main steps? Can inkscape even right tool? (support this dpi without crashing? can't afford high-end illustration tools yet). I give thanks for any directions suggestions either way (smile). Thank you and best regards.

[Chick]

Hello Gentleastronaut, Welcome to the Guild!

There are a lot of tutorials in the forum Tutorial section on lots of these topics!

To get you started, there is a great tutorial in the sticky section of Tutorials, called
Quickstart Guide to Fantasy Mapping: http://www.cartographersguild.com/showthread.php?t=4276

From there, go to
Hand Drawn Mapping for the Artistically Challenged: http://www.cartographersguild.com/sh...ad.php?t=10655

Once you have completed those two tutorials, you'll be well on your way!!

[Gentleastronaut]

Hello Gentleastronaut, Welcome to the Guild!

There are a lot of tutorials in the forum Tutorial section on lots of these topics!

To get you started, there is a great tutorial in the sticky section of Tutorials, called
Quickstart Guide to Fantasy Mapping: http://www.cartographersguild.com/showthread.php?t=4276

From there, go to
Hand Drawn Mapping for the Artistically Challenged: http://www.cartographersguild.com/sh...ad.php?t=10655

Once you have completed those two tutorials, you'll be well on your way!!

Thank you Chick (smile). Will do. (awesome footer pic).