ZNG Cartography

[mikeschley]

Thanks! That means a lot coming from you; I'm a big admirer of your work!

Thanks for the kind words.

Ditto, Mike. I really dig the cartography work you have done for WOTC. It is almost all hand (tablet) drawn, or do you have a library of photoshop brushes you reuse over and over?

Most of what I do is a combination of hand (tablet) drawing and texture collage. I typically draw the inks in first and then either paint the underlying textures with a variety of modified brushes or use reference textures as startings points and then build off of them with cloning tools and brushes. There are a lot of tricks you can employ with layer styles and filters to create depth and atmosphere but you have to be careful that they don't turn out too "Photoshopy".

Mike