13 - District 13 [Kacey]

[ranger]

Josiah, it's just an inner bevel on the border, with a texture, all from the layer styles menu. I drew up the design, and traced over it with the pen tool then stroked it, and filled it with a dusty rose type of colour, I actually find pinks, and purples make nice metals that way, I learned that from the limited colour palette challenge.

I'm actually planning on redoing the border in a more hand drawn style, but if you guy's think it will suit the rest of the map then I may keep it as it is.

I think the sketchy underneath the border actually compliments it as well, but hah that may just be me! its looking good.
are you shading each piece of the buildings as separate layers? I really like the shading. I was toying around with it yesterday on mine and mine ended up looking cartoony.

(lol after looking at your latest progress I can see your blowing up the buildings and hand painting them with extra cool detail... wow you are inspiring me to do more with my own.)