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Okay, been meaning to get back to these, although this piece is relatively recent, I have quite a few of these fantasy dungeon floorplans which need colouring and scanning in.

For those unfamiliar with dungeon floorplans and tiles, they are a gaming aid for use with figures (25/28mm) in Dungeons & Dragons. Although, I guess I could always adapt these as a scenery skin or texture for a computer game of some sort (a top-down flash game perhaps ... well, I can dream!)

Back in the days when we used to dream of access to a black and white (never mind colour) photocopiers, floorplans and maps were often drawn by hand by budding technical drawing and art illustrations graduates and printed on a precious few sheets of card. Of course, now a combination of techniques are employed, but often these err on the side of sampled textures and a sort of computerised blandness. I'm trying to recreate a type of exaggerated realism (cartoony?), only possible with blunter tools (which is may way of saying that I use a pen and I've practically copied old Games Workshop and Warhammer Quest floorplans).

This deviation is intended to be cut-up on computer or by hand and reassembled into the shapes of dungeon rooms. Tesselate, modular, tetrissy ... It's also a sort of test sheet for me. For full size use the "Download" version.

Drawn on A5 white paper with a fine line pen (0.8 mm - quite fat)
Scanned, imported into PSP8 where colouring in was done with mouse using layers and the multiply function. I can't give you a time but it seemed to be done quite quickly.

This may or may not print to scale. Each square is meant to be 1 inch across and represents 5 foot in fantasy gaming terms. I'm trying to develop a style which allows for clearly visible grid (essential for play) whilst also not looking too contrived (well, it's very contrived, but oh y'know ...)

I'm not happy with the stairs especially the wooden ones, but generally I'm happy with some of the floorboards and flagstones. Are they cracked or is it like crazy paving? I have yet to decide!

Gosh, that's an awful lot of words. hmm. This deviation is possibly best viewed from afar.

All I need is some Orcs now ... RAaargh!

EDIT:
I'm really pleased that these squares adapt well to 3-D models of scenery. I made some crates (paper cubes from the wooden pattern) and walls, and a dais - platform for thrones, raised areas. I was working with paper, but stiff card would be required for anything which supports metal figures.
Still unsure of the category for stuff like this because I think the RPG fans would appreciate it when browsing fantasy art (?) - technical drawing, 3D resource?

2nd EDIT:
I think I've really screwed up - the "Download" version is too large - it's only supposed to be 9 inches wide hmpf ... I often get this, I think it's something to do with dpi.

3rd EDIT:
The Download file is now a PDF (created by PrimoPDF) for A4 printer but should adapt well to US Letter format. This solves the changing scale problem. The squares are now roughly 1inch/2.5cm square.

Description
Okay, been meaning to get back to these, although this piece is relatively recent, I have quite a few of these fantasy dungeon floorplans which need colouring and scanning in.

For those unfamiliar with dungeon floorplans and tiles, they are a gaming aid for use with figures (25/28mm) in Dungeons & Dragons. Although, I guess I could always adapt these as a scenery skin or texture for a computer game of some sort (a top-down flash game perhaps ... well, I can dream!)

Back in the days when we used to dream of access to a black and white (never mind colour) photocopiers, floorplans and maps were often drawn by hand by budding technical drawing and art illustrations graduates and printed on a precious few sheets of card. Of course, now a combination of techniques are employed, but often these err on the side of sampled textures and a sort of computerised blandness. I'm trying to recreate a type of exaggerated realism (cartoony?), only possible with blunter tools (which is may way of saying that I use a pen and I've practically copied old Games Workshop and Warhammer Quest floorplans).

This deviation is intended to be cut-up on computer or by hand and reassembled into the shapes of dungeon rooms. Tesselate, modular, tetrissy ... It's also a sort of test sheet for me. For full size use the "Download" version.

Drawn on A5 white paper with a fine line pen (0.8 mm - quite fat)
Scanned, imported into PSP8 where colouring in was done with mouse using layers and the multiply function. I can't give you a time but it seemed to be done quite quickly.

This may or may not print to scale. Each square is meant to be 1 inch across and represents 5 foot in fantasy gaming terms. I'm trying to develop a style which allows for clearly visible grid (essential for play) whilst also not looking too contrived (well, it's very contrived, but oh y'know ...)

I'm not happy with the stairs especially the wooden ones, but generally I'm happy with some of the floorboards and flagstones. Are they cracked or is it like crazy paving? I have yet to decide!

Gosh, that's an awful lot of words. hmm. This deviation is possibly best viewed from afar.

All I need is some Orcs now ... RAaargh!

EDIT:
I'm really pleased that these squares adapt well to 3-D models of scenery. I made some crates (paper cubes from the wooden pattern) and walls, and a dais - platform for thrones, raised areas. I was working with paper, but stiff card would be required for anything which supports metal figures.
Still unsure of the category for stuff like this because I think the RPG fans would appreciate it when browsing fantasy art (?) - technical drawing, 3D resource?

2nd EDIT:
I think I've really screwed up - the "Download" version is too large - it's only supposed to be 9 inches wide hmpf ... I often get this, I think it's something to do with dpi.

3rd EDIT:
The Download file is now a PDF (created by PrimoPDF) for A4 printer but should adapt well to US Letter format. This solves the changing scale problem. The squares are now roughly 1inch/2.5cm square.