Favorite way to work?

[Jennevieve]

What is your favorite way to make maps? Do you hand draw everything and tweak it with Photoshop? Do you do everything with your computer. I have been playing with different methods and am interested in other styles of working.

This map of Dragonwell is a work in progress, but I drew it first, scanned it, and then cleaned it up.

[damonjynx]

Good question, I'm still trying to sort that out for myself. I think a lot depends on the style of map you're doing.

[jpstod]

I only do battlemap with cc3

[Mouse]

I started as a pure CC3 mapper, but now I also use GIMP, Krita, Blender, Corel Photopaint, CorelDraw, Vue... anything according to its best attributes and the job in hand. For instance I started my current challenge map in GIMP, imported a render of a CC3 map as the centrepiece, created a green wax seal in Corel Photopaint, and rendered and imported a model of a Cutter from Vue. There are also clipart geese in the border work.

I have hand drawn a map, but that technique is one I still need to work on as it tends to end up being too landscape in aspect, rather than ISO perspective

Currently I'm examining the possibility of using the new Windows version of the PS alternative, Affinity, but that will have to wait until they sort out a particular tablet bug.

[Eld]

Years ago I used to draw with pencil on paper, then I used to scan the maps and label them on the PC. After the scanning and cleaning of a large map I decided to do all the mapwork on PC with Gimp. Cleaning up scanned maps is just too annoying for me.