Tags: mapping

Handy Dr

Old School Dungeon

Been trying out some more mapping in GIMP. This time I made a classic dungeon, following this tutorial. This one was pretty easy, much less fiddly than the last one I tried. I'm actually pretty happy with it, although I couldn't work out how to rotate the curtain image I downloaded, and the colouring isn't perfect. Guessing it's going to take a while for me to suss out this program properly.

Result is under the cut for anyone curious in my mapping adventures. ( Collapse )
Belanna

Mapping

Life is good at the moment. New house with a not so new girlfriend, old job done, new job a couple of weeks off, free time... Starting tomorrow, I have a week's holiday in Shanghai and Suzhou. Today, however, I decided I would finally start learning how to use GIMP and craft fantasy maps.

After several hours fiddling, mostly following this tutorial from the Cartographer's Guild, I came up with the map under the cut. Some of the shading threw me a bit, and there's definitely imperfections. I made the brushes for the mountains but I'd like to put more care into them, give them better shading and the like. I'm not sure if I like the faded colour of the trees either - I followed the tutorial's advice on that, but I think a darker colour would be more striking. If you look closely, you can see the fading is uneven too: the tutorial cautioned against that, but I couldn't seem to help it. The map is unlabeled since I disliked every method I tried and then ran out of time, so I clearly need more practice.

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Still, it was a lot of fun, and there are a ton of other tutorials on the site. Hopefully it won't be too long until I get better!