Anyone know how to make good hand-drawn looking buildings?

[RobA]

Here is one in Gimp, but there should be a photoshop equivalent.

- draw the roofs as solid coloured shapes
- apply a bevel
- duplicate and do an edge detect, that you invert and curve adjust (in multiply mode)
- Gaussian blur the edge layer
- aggressively unsharp mask the blurred layer
- optionally perform a dilate to reduce the heaviness of the lines.


-Rob A>

[eabrek23]

I tried it a bunch of times, but I can't seem to get any lines to show up at all.

[Ascension]

Here's how I do it.

[eabrek23]

Nice. Thanks. Any idea what pattern that is in the picture?

[eabrek23]

Anyone else have some techniques? I'm trying to get all that I can and see which one I like best.

[Endarguul]

nice building styles, both of them. Maybe I'll use one or both of them for a map if I have a good idea for a city.

[eabrek23]

I think what I will do is use the bevel technique, and then put thin lines over the bevel spots so it looks han-drawn, but that way I still get the correct shading on everything. The only problem is I can't find a way to make a buildings like Example 1 with correct shading like those in Example 2, the bevel only makes them like Example 2.