May/June 2024 Challenge: Bay of Biscay

[Straf]

I thought I'd take a punt on this. Spoiler: I haven't gone out in a wee boat to survey the coastline or anything so I've just chosen an old map and traced it. It's circa 1750 I think. I just want to try something out using a very limited colour palette. I've chosen the green/blue one (#1 I think) and added one more colour to it - the parchment/background colour. I'm going to attempt to create a dithering effect using the two colours with the parchment as a background base colour. i.e. no colour, blue (water), green (land). I've greyscaled the border for now - I've used a plasma filter to try to make it a bit wishy-washy and I'll attempt to do some colour bleed as well. Anyway this is the starting point:

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Bay of Biscay.jpg

[Straf]

And here it is coloured in. Right now it's just the colours of the palette. A few labels, a compass rose, maybe a scale, and this would be a map. But this is gold medal territory so now Straf needs to do something a bit more out of his comfort zone. This amount of pigment? Really?

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Bay of Biscay.jpg

[Diamond]

Go Straf go! Leave your comfort zone! For the glory of the Guild!

[- JO -]

C'mon ! Give us that extra-mile !

[Straf]

I'm struggling with this because GIMP and tablet support seems to be somewhat poor right now. Or for my tablet anyway. I'll see what I can finish.

[Turambar]

I'm struggling with this because GIMP and tablet support seems to be somewhat poor right now. Or for my tablet anyway. I'll see what I can finish.

Have you tried turning off Microsoft Ink? I have find that it can sometimes mess with tablet performance when using Gimp.

[Straf]

Yeah, I just get basic function with no pressure functions at all. I read somewhere that GTK+2 or whatever is broken and tablet functionality is limited and won't be fixed until GIMP 3.