alhoon wrote:How you make those lines on the cliffs?
A pen?
The way I create maps:
1. I create vector shapes of all identifiable objects - roads, buildings, river banks, coasts, base of hills/cliffs/mountains, etc, then print to large format at 18" x 24", 24" x 36" or 36" x 48"
2. I place tracing paper on top of the print, and trace the major objects with a pen (hand-drawn). Then I detail all objects - crosshatches for solid ground (for underground/dungeon maps), "lines at edge of cliffs, hills, mountains", ground and plant detail, etc.
3. Then I scan these into TIF format as B/W, import to Photoshop and convert to grayscale 300 ppi.
4. Import to Xara Xtreme, then create beveled shapes, apply colors, feathering, transparency and shadowing in stacked layers.
5. Export to appropriate dimensions and final format (PDF, TIF, JPG, whatever that's needed).
Its pretty straight forward.
For example here is an up-close section of a city map I am working on for Paizo Publishing, showing only hand line-work. At some point all my maps are just line-work:
Here is another finished encounter-scale map, in larger format so you can more easily see the hand-work detailing:
Michael