Tutorial Thread. How to use the pen tool to (relatively) quickly lay in the buildings on a city map. Works in both gimp and photoshop. Likely also in Illustrator.

And it’ll potentially save you from carpal tunnel syndrome. So that’s a plus. I’m jumping in where we’ve got the roads mapped out. The next step is filling the remaining space with buildings to turn a skeleton of a town into a town. The key is to give the impression of a large number of buildings, without drawing every single chimney pot and awning.