15 - [Inner] The Ward of Erahum [Mouse]

[kacey]

It kills me that you use pre made symbols like in CC3 when you can do things like experiment 3 which looks amazing. You're right about the splodges, I use them so I can get the same colour again, sometimes I forget to do this, and it's almost impossible to pick the exact same colour again so things can start to look inconsistent. There's been many times where I had to do things over because I forgot to save the colour swatch. I really hope you do the whole section this way, it might take longer, but it will be well worth it... I can't wait to see the next update.

[Pixie]

It kills me that you use pre made symbols like in CC3 when you can do things like experiment 3 which looks amazing.

Couldn't have been better said. You draw with such artistry.
Your "experiment" 3 is now my model for the bits of exposed rock that I have planned.

[Mouse]

I've never tried going bigger then 19 by 13 inches because that's the size I print, it's about 5700 by 3900 pixels, and this size seems to do fine on my computer which has 16 gb of ram, but if I get too many layers it definitely starts to lag. I don't see why you couldn't bring you're textures into gimp, what type of files are they? You could probably bring you're symbols in too are they saved as png? You could even make brushes out of them, and stamp them in, I'm sure there's YouTube videos on how to make gimp brushes, and it's not hard to do... And just for fun you should search how to make animated brushes in gimp on YouTube you might be surprised how easy it is to make one. I would only worry because you say you have a low end computer so make sure you save often in case you get too many layers, and it decides to freeze up on you, that happened to me when I was using gimp on my old hp laptop, but it only had 2gb of ram so I'm surprised it worked at all. If you're going to be using gimp allot I would really recommend learning about layer masks YouTube has videos on that too, and it will make you're life so much easier, you could use masks to paint in you're textures, or hide parts of them.

Thanks Kacey

That's quite a lot of really useful information. I was kind of hoping that you wouldn't say it was down to masks, but I guess I will just have to bite the bullet and work out why I don't understand them, since I only have 4GB RAM! Making my own brushes might work. I've seen colour brushes, and I'm sure that I could work out tiny rotating patterns to do stuff like grass and so on

Couldn't have been better said. You draw with such artistry.
Your "experiment" 3 is now my model for the bits of exposed rock that I have planned.

Thanks Pixie

If you're looking for a bit more inspiration that isn't as muddy-coloured as mine, I got my inspiration from THW. The way he did his valley in District 32 (The Jangles) is awe inspiring, and the colours are just gorgeous