June 2011 Challenge Entry - Golem Heights

[eViLe_eAgLe]

Wow, I love that wall.. Any tips on how to do something like that? Ill be getting my first tablet soon too.
Also, I must say this is bloody brilliant Ascension!

[Ascension]

The wall I used the pencil tool, 19 pixel hard round, and used the mouse to draw a wall-like thing in black. I then put on a black n white checkerboard pattern overlay, color overlay, brown stroke, and brown drop shadow. Set the fill to zero and reduced opacity of the pattern and color overlays. I couldn't use a stone or blocks pattern as it would have been too small. I made a selection of the wall exterior, made it a path, new layer, then stroked the path with a square hard pencil with like 200% spacing with angle jitter set to direction. Then I erased the bits sticking out beyond the wall and gave the battlements the same layer styles but smaller drop shadow.