Quote Originally Posted by ravells View Post
If you have photoshop or similar, you might want to try this:

Go to Mayang's free texture site and have a look at the moss and lichen textures.
Good stuff, and thanks for the link. I needs to find the time to learns the GIMP.

Quote Originally Posted by ravells View Post
At the end of the day, though if you're after that illustrative style, then you'll need to draw it (unless you're a photoshop genius). I'm not familiar with CC3, but it'll be pretty much drawing the boundary of the forest giving it a fill and then drawing your tufts on top of it - I would guess.
Yeah, I think hand drawing in CC3 would be the way to go. The Tome of Ultimate Mapping (which kept me up reading in bed to 3 am last night) has some tutorials and tips on doing this which are pretty much what you just said.

I'm going to try playing around with some stuff today as time permits and post results back.