jshoer's workshop

[jshoer]

Here we go! Trying a couple things, including trying to make it look like the map is on a well-folded woven surface and adding annotations in a later hand - maybe a trader going through the unfamiliar land:

[ThomasR]

Here we go! Trying a couple things, including trying to make it look like the map is on a well-folded woven surface and adding annotations in a later hand - maybe a trader going through the unfamiliar land:

I like it ! If I may propose an advice ... Scan it, throw a parchment background beneath, slightly erase the fabric marks and stain it. Ok, that's my answer to every hand drawn map these days but I think it could look cool. Add a fabric overlay and perhaps a layer with a greayscale fold set to hard light or linear light and you're set with a gorgeous map.

[jshoer]

I like it ! If I may propose an advice ... Scan it, throw a parchment background beneath, slightly erase the fabric marks and stain it. Ok, that's my answer to every hand drawn map these days but I think it could look cool. Add a fabric overlay and perhaps a layer with a greayscale fold set to hard light or linear light and you're set with a gorgeous map.

Hmm, trying to step through your advice, and I came up with this...what do you think?


The layers are:
- a brown color on the bottom
- a fabric texture at 80% opacity normal
- a brown/black radial gradient along the border at 100% normal
- the hand-drawn map, set to multiply
- shadows: big, soft black brush at 30% opacity soft light, and then half the line erased with a harder brush
- same thing with a white brush for highlights