How do I recreate this style of Ocean ?

[LogicNo]

Hi,
I'm new to mapping and I was wondering how do one make ocean like in this Song of Fire and Ice map? I have idea how to do a land but not the ocean.

[waldronate]

It looks like a not very loaded wide brush painting. That way, you'll see the strokes. For me, it really doesn't fit with the map elements, but that's a matter of taste.

To do this sort of thing with a physical brush is pretty simple: get your base medium ready, load up your brush with dark paint and draw around and across the coastal and ocean areas with long, continuous strokes.

To do this digitally is a bit more complex. Step 0: get a painting tool that can mimic a not very loaded wide brush. Step 1: make a new layer and fill it with a medium tan background color that will blend through the paint strokes as shown above. Step 2: Make a new layer and then, using a dark color, draw around and across the coastal and ocean areas with long, continuous strokes. Step 3: Draw the land areas on layers above the background (if you already have land areas, create the layers from steps 1 and 2 underneath the land layer).

[johnvanvliet]

there are many many ways to do something like that
use the paint brush tool and paint it



use a random or guided texture generator
-- i like using G'mic

there is also a Gimp plugin
patterns / seamless turbulence



or any of the other things it can do