Board game tiles (Design question)

I'm honestly in no way shape or form a 2D artist.

But if I was approaching this, yes, I would use Photoshop and a tablet.

There are loads of tutorials online which should help you out with this kind of thing but one that springs to mind is in the Vertex e-book (Found here, it's free: http://www.artbypapercut.com/downloads/)

Go to page 47 in that e-book and there's a short tutorial about how this guy goes about painting his own textures. It's in a very similar style to the stuff posted above.

Also, try this link (it was posted in FMPONE's thread over in the 3D forum) which has a load of texturing tutorials by the looks of it: http://wiki.polycount.com/TexturingTutorials

Interested to see what comes of this since I like the style too

The first ones seem pretty easy actually, they are just photo manipulations with basic photoshop tools (drop shadows, burn, dodge etc). The snow ones seem to be painted with traditional media but I could be wrong.

I guess a good start would be to look for texturing tutorials for old skool engines (Half-Life, Quake 3, Unreal etc) or maybe take a look at some old books:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Dark-Side-…=game+texturing

Hourences wrote some nice old school tutorials too:

http://www.hourences.com/tutorials/

The process is the same really, it's just the media that's different

Those looks indeed simply made in photoshop with photomanipulation or drawn

If you don't feel confident with painting, you could totally model that in max, bake a lighting, get a shot from top view and then polishing the painting/textures in photoshop

What i don't know though, is how you could print that easily at home on hard cardboard

Quote from KoKo5oVaR

Those looks indeed simply made in photoshop with photomanipulation or drawn

If you don't feel confident with painting, you could totally model that in max, bake a lighting, get a shot from top view and then polishing the painting/textures in photoshop

What i don't know though, is how you could print that easily at home on hard cardboard

Just print on regular paper and then glue to a cardboard

3D print that stuff. It'd look awesome

Quote from Beck

3D print that stuff. It'd look awesome

Yes please, then do this https://plus.google.com/photos/1014140…7633?banner=pwa and send it to us, i would be very grateful

I don't actually like board/tabletop games but I would actually love to 3D print tiles, vehicles, people and buildings for such a use. I think it'd be awesome fun