[Award Winner] Hand-Drawn Mapping (for the Artistically Challenged)

[Midgardsormr]

Ah, you want Delgondahntelius' excellent tutorial here: http://www.cartographersguild.com/showthread.php?t=3013

[JasperAK]

This is a fantastic tut. My one problem is I can't find the Horizontal brush. I had it on an old computer but cannot find it now.

Edit: Never mind. I'm an idiot.

[Christian Nicholas]

Thank you for the tutorial. Things like this are exactly what I joined this site for!

[Gidde]

Wow, I've been gone for a while and I came back to find out lots of people are finding this helpful. I'm glad, and thanks for posting about it

It's way past current, but for what it's worth (to Techpatriot) the original map was done with a stylus, but I made brushes after for the sake of the tutorial and the sanity of those using it. Drawing each mountain was *tedious* as all get out!

[Cathrena]

It may be a little out of date but it is still very informative. Thank you!

[Eisdur]

Thanks for this excellent tutorial, Gidde. I used it to improve the map from my portuguese-written book project (https://oreiadulto.blogspot.com.br/). The map can be seen here.

[Frost Birch]

Terran hand drawn3-1.png Here's my attempt at folowing the tutorial... Very good IMO. (The tutorial that is)

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[Spinplasm]

Hi - Enjoying this foundational tutorial very much, and wondering if anyone has created any additional brushes for use in this style - such as a Jungle/Rainforest/Tropical forest, a Swamp/Marsh, Desert, etc. I have played around with a few from other sources but they do not match up with Gidde's designs too well. I am NOT a GIMP pro, so was hoping to borrow rather than try to create!

Thanks!

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[Spinplasm]

Using the built in brushes and a couple of extras for the swampy areas, I made this attempt to do an artistic of one of my worlds regional maps. No cities or roads or labels yet, but I am excited about how it has turned out so far, and it is definitely help me get a better understanding of how different parts of GIMP work! Of course now I feel the need to learn how to make my own customer brushes

SpinAzonuu Artistic attempt n1.jpg

[ninjawarrior5224]

I recently used this tutorial in a Photoshop project I'm working on. Some of the steps were difficult to create in Photoshop but overall this tutorial was fantastic!