Stippling Dots and Cross-Hatching for Maps

This collection of five hand-drawn map backgrounds is intended to add an alternate “Old School” feel to any hand-drawn or computer generated map without resorting to the tedious work of drawing it yourself.  Each background is a fifteen inch square, 300 DPI transparent Portable Network Graphics (PNG) file. 

I’ve done the work of scanning and manipulating these graphics to give you a seamless tile that is ready to work with in your favorite graphics program to create maps of any size.  These files will save you many hours of tedious background drawing so you can spend more time creating your maps and preparing for your game. 

My preferred use for the stippling is to use all three sizes together by using different color stroke layers on my scanned map and then using those colors to select areas of my stipple fill to cut and paste into a new layer of the map. A quick merge and then blur of the stipple layers and you're done!

Jun 11, 2015 Edit:

If you would like to purchase this product for use in commerical maps you may do so, but you may not resell or give away the stipples and crosshatching themselves.

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