Aug 09, 2011 by Yordan Tachev | Posted in Hobbies & Crafts
I will give you a short list of hobbies. Can you help me put them to good use?
And here we go:
Drawing (I study drawing and want to become an artist. I like drawing fantasy stuff); Sculpture (I want to do sculptures for a living); Writing
Fantasy Cartography with Adobe Photoshop 1
Episode 1: Creating a Paper/Parchment Background. For more info, visit www.zombienirvana.com
Fantasy Cartography with Adobe Photoshop 2
We'll finish creating our aged paper background, create a more crinkled version, and I'll explain some of my Photoshop philosophy. For ...
Fantasy Cartography with Adobe Photoshop 4
In this installment, we'll use a few tricks to make our forest pattern pop, including some sneaky layer maneuvering and creating and ...
Fantasy Cartography with Adobe Photoshop 5
Things get colorful in this episode as we discuss saturation, the color picker, dealing with gamut, and a faux watercolor technique.
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(1 diggs) 2010 Ennie Award Nominations
Jul 12, 2010 from masterdwarf(Sean Kelley)
Source: http://www.enworld.org/forum/news/281731-gen-con-en-world-rpg-awards-nominations-2010-a.html
After going through hundreds of entries, the judges have narrowed the field and selected the nominees for each of the 20 categories. Voting for the ENnies will begin on July 16th.
The judges have chosen five products for each category below. The HM products (Honorable Mention) are products that the judges really liked, but fell short of an actual nomination. For more information, click on a...
(75 diggs) Comic Book Cartography: Maps of the Worlds of Comics
Apr 10, 2010 from mklopez(Miguel Lopez)
We admit -- we are huge nerds for maps. Whether we were poking through the U.S.S. Enterprise schematics that teched the tech or following Frodo's path through Middle Earth, we have always been way, way down with maps that enable us to get even more immersed in the fantasy worlds we enjoy.
(2 diggs) Fantasy Cartography
Jul 26, 2008 from ebolag4(Jeff Miller)
This is a really neat site that collects maps from fantasy and science fiction novels, role playing games, and various movies and shows. Who wouldn't love being able to look up the location of the Klingon Empire and the surrounds of the Emerald City in one place?
hand made fantasy map. I 'design' complete fantasy cities, no new one, but places that are grown over centuries. This city, Wepelte, is situated at beginning/end of a fjord, where two rivers end in sea. Completely drawns with pencils, so notice the colour difference between north and south... I...
Hand drawn fantasy city. I design towns and cities that have grown over centuries - they aren't complete new-built places, but 'ever existed places now being drawn'.
This particular city is actually more than one:
-the island's capital Veere (town; west). Originally it was a...