(Nova) EG - Hollywood Documentary [extremely picture-heavy]

For those of you who wonder how my maps begin and how I go about
making them. To be sure, there's loads of other things more exciting
than me making a map but for those with nothing else better to do, here's
my map-making documentary.

And so begins my map:



Adding some preliminary fancies:



Expansion and refining:



More expansion and refining:



The coloring begins, only on a computer am I able to stay within the lines:



More coloring, I'm slightly unsure where to go and kinda feel like laying out a base for the map
has stifled my creativity:



As if the project wasn't enough of a pain in the ass, I find out that
symmetry was slightly off. Coming up: my war on asymmetry.



In I go to BoloReich, the last remaining map editor with copy & paste.



My method to get the symmetry back in order: instead of putting in all
the pieces by myself, I select a section, rotate it to the right and
flip it horizontally. Then I find the top-left corner of where the section
is on the other side. It's a real pain in the ass but it beats doing it
all by hand.







And it's fixed!



Now I go to get the rest of the map back in order:



Now that it's fixed, some more coloring:




Getting back the symmetry:



Done with the color, but I'm not so pleased with its overall brightness.
I decide to try and tone it down a little:



Still not terribly pleased, but I decide to quit while I'm ahead and work on the frame:





Even still, the map isn't all I'd hoped for but since it wasn't bad as it
could've been, I decide to stop while I'm ahead.



Fini.

I feel that I have looked into the mind of a serial killer.

"To my extreme delight, this one required little stalking to become cowed..."

I am a pig, not a cow...!

Cowever, ewe'ved been Porked

To be fair I'd much rather be a deranged killer than a talking pig.

First things first.... I am not a talking pig. I am a pig that can type and by some form of luck, the letters I type some how spell words.

oink oink

I can believe that, since it looks like half (or more) of your post is missing. "First things first?" What about the rest of it?

Good guide, too bad I won't ever be bored enough to do that. :P How long did that one take you? LOL at Windows '98. :lol:

Well, if you look at the clock it took me from 2:20 PM to 1:26, so roughly minus one hour. You may LOL even more when you find out I'm actually using Windows ME.

still cant do step 1.