Dirty style

[Quabbe]

Hey,

old map, new style. I thought, while I was erasing some names that do not longer fit into my world-concept, I could bury the map for a few years in the earth and see, what will come out. Okay, I didn't really bury the map, but doesn't it look like I did?

Caeruin-19.jpg

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[Aenigma]

Looks awesome. It really does look like this map has survived the Roman Empire or something.

[Midgardsormr]

Very nice and persuasive! You could tatter the edges just a bit more, though—they're very sharp considering the distress of the surface of the paper.

[tilt]

looks great... I first thought it was painted on wood - but seing the missing pieces here and there I revised my opinion to paper.. thus I agree with Midgard, that a little more ruffling of the feathe... edges would be nice

[ravells]

Fantastic texture work!

[Seeria]

Care to explain how you did it? Looks great

[Quabbe]

Hey,

thanks guys. I have followed your words and frayed the edges around. I also added a light shadow there.

Care to explain how you did it? Looks great

I took an interesting texture from cgtextures.com (Concrete -> Bunker Wall -> Damaged for example) and put it above the map (blendmode: lighten). I put the visible on a new layer (Shift + Alt + Ctrl + E), deleted the texture layer, added a mask and painted out the areas I wanted to look cracked and buried with a soft brush on low opacity. I did this with two different textures, so it turned out quite nice.

Caeruin-20.jpg

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[MSZ]

very nice effect