Post by Haneroze on Jan 20, 2014 20:56:56 GMT
Hello. I think it's rather confusing about what happens when someone attempts to draw anything without the skill. People say you can't draw anything better than stick figures, but to me, it makes zero sense that a picture magically becomes stick figures. As such, I've came up with an idea that seem to be canon-plausible:
Any character may draw anything under one condition: He must be using only basic materials. Any attempt at using different materials scratches the paper instead. As such, non-artisan and non-scribes may only draw on small white sheet (Regular 8 ½ x 11 or less, notepad included), using black ink (black and white, no grey tone) and bad quality feather (no control of line size, thus all lines are bold).
Artisan's side, this means that it's like drawing with a heavy black marker. While what you draw is comprehensible, "low quality picture" would not mean "stick figures" or "shacky line", but rather an incomplete art or sketch like if you're using an NDS' Pictochat (Highest quality possible being this, except less pixellised yet bigger lines). Erasing would also be impossible.
Scribe's side, this means that anyone can write no problem, however with only small sheet and bold lines, it is not possible to copy any map clearly enough (which could kinda look like this, with even more bold lines instead of color). As such, one could really just draw a map of a very small area. Of course, giving any magical property to a text would also be impossible.
About that "any attempt to use a different material will scratch the paper" rule, this could also apply to low-level artisans and scribes trying to use a higher level material. I think it would be interesting to make the "search of color" a concept for Artisans and Scribes. Humanity has an history behind the creation of paint colors, starting with herbs for a dirty-and-temporary green color, and later on going with butterfly wings for a royal blue color. As such, the higher the level of an artisan or Scribe, the purest the colors they may use without scratching the paper, and color crafting would be about imaginating the best sources of color and getting them.
What do you guys think about my idea?
Any character may draw anything under one condition: He must be using only basic materials. Any attempt at using different materials scratches the paper instead. As such, non-artisan and non-scribes may only draw on small white sheet (Regular 8 ½ x 11 or less, notepad included), using black ink (black and white, no grey tone) and bad quality feather (no control of line size, thus all lines are bold).
Artisan's side, this means that it's like drawing with a heavy black marker. While what you draw is comprehensible, "low quality picture" would not mean "stick figures" or "shacky line", but rather an incomplete art or sketch like if you're using an NDS' Pictochat (Highest quality possible being this, except less pixellised yet bigger lines). Erasing would also be impossible.
Scribe's side, this means that anyone can write no problem, however with only small sheet and bold lines, it is not possible to copy any map clearly enough (which could kinda look like this, with even more bold lines instead of color). As such, one could really just draw a map of a very small area. Of course, giving any magical property to a text would also be impossible.
About that "any attempt to use a different material will scratch the paper" rule, this could also apply to low-level artisans and scribes trying to use a higher level material. I think it would be interesting to make the "search of color" a concept for Artisans and Scribes. Humanity has an history behind the creation of paint colors, starting with herbs for a dirty-and-temporary green color, and later on going with butterfly wings for a royal blue color. As such, the higher the level of an artisan or Scribe, the purest the colors they may use without scratching the paper, and color crafting would be about imaginating the best sources of color and getting them.
What do you guys think about my idea?
