Lerb Random Thread

[Larb]

So mapvember helped me find my motivation again and I've been doing things. Currently working on a bakery. Actually the second bakery. Then I might do an industrial bread ship, who knows. But it'll be all kinds of random things - some which may not make it past the line sketch stage so I'll keep them all to this thread unless they get big and completed.

Here is the completed mini future bakery and the current WIP bakery.

I'm also using SAI for most of these with some potatoshop pattern trickery now and again.

Another thing I may do is go through the various tutorials and do some of those that use different techniques than I do just to try out new things.

[DrWho42]

i'm intrigued by the bread ship! hoping to see toasters too

[J.Edward]

I'm enjoying all this Larb-map goodness.
It's like a holiday festival.
And the food interplay ;D hehe

[Larb]

Bakery now ready for colour.

[arsheesh]

Looking really good Larb. The building is well laid out.

Cheers,
-Arsheesh

[Badger]

Larb, you truly have a gift, you make fantastic little maps and shops. Such clean lines and great colors (unlike my gaudy saturated colors) so that everytime I pull up your thread I know i'm going to be like "wow". Just FYI for ya.

So what is photoshop pattern trickery? In my head I picture you somehow tricking photoshop into putting patterns into drawings without PS ever knowing what happened..

Keep up the great work!!

[Larb]

So photoshop trickey in this case is me using a pattern to do the floorboard lines. Because I want a pretty regular set of lines and drawing each individual one is a pain, I just made a pattern. Which in reality is like a 1x10 (I think) pixel image, transparent with a couple of black pixels to create the line. Then I rasterize the pattern layer and touch up as needed.

I'm actually taking my time on the colour. Here is the current state of it with just the floor area mostly done. I also started some initial work on the industrial space bread ship. But no deckplans yet - just idea sketches.

[ThomasR]

I have a building plan needed for my RPG party and your style is so inspirational !

[Ilanthar]

I may have said before, but this kind of building plans/views reminds me of those you could find in the good old Warhammer first edition.
Just excellent, gamer friendly and inspirational.

[LunaticDesign]

I love your line work!