Category: Digital Art

Digital Art

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Fictional World Map Prototype Using GIMP

I have been tinkering about in GIMP trying to create a World Map for my digital comic.

The settings I have played about with are:

  1. Gaussian Blur to create greyscale image layers that will then be fed into the GIMP Bump Mapping tool.
  2. The GIMP Bump Mapping tool.

Anyway after 3 hours of pottering about on the laptop this is what I have:

UndomeaMap2.1

 

Next I’m going to tweak the top ridges on the mountains and also add some text.

 

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Wacom Intuos3 Graphics Tablet Setup

I’ve been thinking of transitioning from painting with a mouse to a graphics tablet for a while now so I’ve just borrowed my brothers 6 x 8 inch graphics tablet 🙂

It’s a serious bit of kit and originally cost probably 4 times what I was intending to spend on a graphics tablet myself.  Only problem was he’d lost the CD so I had to download the drivers off the internet.

I’ve written an article about the process in case anyone else has the same problem:  Setting Up A Wacom Intuos3 Without The CD.

Now I can get on and see what all the fuss is about with graphics tablets …