Fremitus' "how to" guide to (the digital end of) DIY (round) shield transfers

[Fremitus Borealis]

So, figured I'd tack on one thing I was just experimenting with today, when I should've been, like, painting or something 

But, following this tutorial on the YouTubes (), I was able to take an ancient coin (in this case, Demetrios I of Baktria) and turn it into a cartoony image to use on shields or standards. I'll attach the "before and after" images below, but basically, the reason I share this here, is that unlike most processes with this stuff where you have to piece together 8 different tutorials to have any hope of a passable result for our wargaming purposes (I mean, see the original post!!!), I was able to do this with really just this one tutorial. Mind you this was my first go at it, so ideally the next one will be better, but I mean... considering I'm going to shrink the image down to 10-15 millimetres and look at it from 3+ feet away most of the time... I think it'll work 

 

[has.been]

Can't wait to see the finished shield.
Same process would surely work with original shield/vase designs.

[Fremitus Borealis]

Can't wait to see the finished shield.
Same process would surely work with original shield/vase designs.

It may, or it may not I think the process in the last post works best for taking photographs of people (the coin was a bit of a stretch!), as there are actually fewer "necessary" lines than in say, a vase painting. I'm actually currently toying with taking a scene from my favorite vase painting (Herakles stealing the Delphic tripod and running off like a dog from the dinner table ) and making it into a transfer, but there are just so many more tiny lines and such that it's way more tedious, and I keep going (there's gotta be a better way!). But hey, the more you practice, the better you get, so who knows.