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Fantasy Cartography: Just Add Something Blotchy

by polm23 on 9/7/21, 6:47 AM with 13 comments

• by BugsJustFindMe on 9/8/21, 2:48 AM

  My favorite example of food texture is the fried chicken explosion: https://i.imgur.com/UhAODHB.gif

• by Folcon on 9/8/21, 8:35 AM

  Finding good fantasy mapping blogs is hard, I don't know too many, to anyone else interested in this Here Dragons Abound[0] is really good resource.

  Any others people really like?

  -[0]: https://heredragonsabound.blogspot.com/

• by Kaibeezy on 9/8/21, 8:40 AM

  Now, as a metaphorical example, this has much wider application.

  - What sound texture can I add to my ambient tracks?

  - What flavor texture can I add to my cock-a-leekie?

  - What philosophical texture can I add to my pitch deck?

• by elipsey on 9/8/21, 1:43 AM

  Interestingly, I think I recognize the background tile on the page as a member (or slight modification of a member) of my favorite wallpaper package propaganda-debian. In any case, author is clearly a connoisseur of textures.

• by hoseja on 9/8/21, 7:42 AM

  Nothing to do with cartography specifically, just "parchment" effect.

• by Grakel on 9/8/21, 2:06 AM

  That's a lot of words for an entry level Photoshop tutorial.