Some maps & artwork from my campaign.

[Knightfall]

Here's a couple of things I've been messing around with over the weekend...

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...basically just playing around with some ideas for a few knightly orders and stuff

Excellent.

 

[Kris]

What resolution are you working in and what size brush are you using to make your base mountains?

When I start drawing the mountains they are done using some vector graphics software called GreenStreet Draw4. The nature of vector graphics is that you are not really working with 'pixels' but with paths - so there is no real pixels/dots per inch resolution - as there are no pixels (and thus with vector paths you can zoom in to any particular line or shape and it will never loose any quality or become pixelated).

If you are not familiar with vector graphics then take a look at this sheet I did a while back - and you will see that the car image never becomes pixelated if you keep magnifying the image.
http://www.fluency.paintedtarget.org/df/freebies/kr_civilian_car.pdf

However all that said, when I do draw the mountains (in this vector graphics program) I'm using a line weight of 1pt... but if I want to play around with it in photoshop later (which I usually do) I will export it to a bitmap image (thus converting it from a vector graphic to a raster graphic) at a resolution of 300.

But since I'm hopeless at explaining things, that probably made no sense at all

 

[JDragon]

Kris, thanks for the additional info.

I haven't played with Vector graphics alot, but understand the concept of them so I get what your saying.

For some reason when I went to post my question I forgot you had mentioned you used the vector program to draw them.

The bitmap and 300dpi details are helpful.

Thanks

JD

 

[Kris]

I absolutely love these- I'd love to see more!

I've been working on a few more this weekend... and here's the results:

 

[Redrobes]

Add another 'awesome' to the tally...

Hey Kris these, along with the others, are awesome - as has been repeatedly stated ! I generally hang out on the Cartographers Guild (.com) now and have not been on EnWorld for a while - its so busy all the time. Anyway, the guys there use Inkscape a lot which is a free vector program to do much of the art for maps and icons. Do you think that your Green Street is a better app than this, or is it a case that you can play it fluently and why change now ? I would admit to using many apps only because I know them well not because they are the best in their field.

 

[Kris]

Do you think that your Green Street is a better app than this...

I've had a look at some screenshots of inkscape in the past, and it looks pretty similar to Draw4.

Here is a screen capture of my Draw4 interface for you to compare:
http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l159/csp_kris/draw4.jpg
(that's kind of what the image looks like before I export to a bitmap and play around with it in photoshop)

But you are probably right in saying that I mainly use it out of familiarity, as I actually own an older version of Adobe Illustrator - but although it has lots more features, I rarely use it ...as Draw4 is perfectly adequate for the kind of things I want to use it for (i.e. the basic shapes of things that I'll later play around with in photoshop).

Here's another example of an initial vector graphic image:
http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l159/csp_kris/teldinnbefore.jpg

And then the finished map (after it's been photoshopped some):
http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l159/csp_kris/teldinnafter.jpg

 

[Kris]

I managed to finish up the last of the non-evil deities last night... and so all together they now look something like this:

Anyone interested as to which emblem represents which god can find a list that starts on the following page of my campaign website:
http://airtha.freehostia.com/page5.html
(all the lame campaign specific names/genders/etc. can be ignored - just look for the D&D name in brackets at the end of each)

 

[Angel Tarragon]

Consider these yoinked for all my future Greyhawk games!

 

[Kris]

As I hinted at above, I've kinda separated the gods into two opposed factions in my own world, and as such I wanted to make the emblems of the 'evil' gods a little different. So here's what I've come up with today:

Nex / Ocissio / Vigilax One-eye / Susurro / Regno the Accursed
(Nerull / Erythnul / Gruumsh / Vecna / Hextor)​

 

[Kris]

OK... this isn't really something I have used yet... but I have been thinking about putting a few maps together (for use with miniatures) for a few different size/shape buildings. I was going to try and keep them relatively small and simple (i.e. big enough to fit onto a single sheet of paper), but I'm unsure of whether to try and draw furniture inside or to leave them empty (...and maybe laminate them so stuff can be drawn on and then later erased).

Anyway, here's a quick test of what they might look like...
http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l159/csp_kris/house_concept.jpg