Finally figured out how to make my coastlines look less like a potato

I was struggling for weeks to draw natural looking bays and inlets on my main continent, and then I tried using a piece of torn cardboard to stamp random ink shapes as a guide. It gave me a perfect, jagged outline to trace over in Procreate! What's your favorite weird trick for getting past a creative block on a map?

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jade3216d ago

Yeah the dry rice scanner trick is genius lol. I've used coffee grounds for rocky textures and even a crumpled up paper bag for cave walls.

james66116d ago

That's such a smart idea, using a real world texture like that. I've done something similar by dropping a handful of dry rice on a scanner and using the scan as a landmass template. It gives you those crazy random shapes you'd never think to draw yourself. Makes you wonder what other junk around the house could become a mountain range or a forest.