This is looking great, you've really got a handle on using lots of lines to show the detail, it looks really good. Can I ask what you're using to draw this? Here's the thing; your buildings have lots of really nice straight lines, something I have a lot of trouble with. If you have some secrets I could steal, er, copy, umm, learn from? I'd really appreciate it.
I'm a big fan of borders, but I feel like this one is a bit heavy. Thinning the lines or fading it into the paper a bit would let the focus stay on the beautiful lines you're making.
Cheers,
Meshon
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I'm using an intuos 5 tablet and photoshop. When I go to make the lines for the houses, I'm holding down the shift button. That forces the line to be straight. I do the whole house this way, then use the marquee tool to select the building and position it where I want it on the map.
I almost started using Illustrator, but decided against it because I do want some variation in the thickness of the line that I get with the pen pressure from the brushes. Can't quite get the same organic effect from using AI's pen tool.
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One method you could try to speed up the process/save time is to use the stroke layer style. Set the stroke layer style to your colour (presumably black) and preferred thickness. Then draw the whole building using the line tool set to the width of your building. You can draw it using a line the colour of the roof, or you can set the fill to 0 so that it doesn't actually "fill" in the colour at all and you just have the outline. Then just rasterize the whole layer so you're simply left with a layer of black outlines.
Also this map is coming along great.
My new Deviant-thing. I finally caved.
Great map. Villages like this are always welcome for gaming.
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