Chicory: A Colorful Tale

Chicory: A Colorful Tale

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Brush Texture Combinations for Painting
By sweaty
Documenting patterns + how to recreate them. Just for cosmetic use to help people decorate their maps in more interesting ways, especially the houses.
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Preface
This guide is split up into groups of 4. Underneath each picture are written instructions on how to recreate each pattern, as well as pictured within the screenshot at the bottom.

Patterns are contained within either left roof, left wall, right roof, or right wall. Note that just because I show a pattern being on a roof or wall, doesn't mean it doesn't work well on the opposite (in some cases, it'll work better). I just used those four so that I could fit as many patterns on a screen neatly as possible while not infringing on any of my already painted screens.
Textures I


Left Roof: diamond flower
1. (Accent color) Fill
2. (Main color) Add diagonal mesh
3. (Main color) Add diamond texture

Suggested to use colors with high contrast for best results.

Left wall: squares
1. (Accent color) Fill
2. (Main color) Add polka dot texture
3. (Main color) Add diamond texture

Suggested to use colors with high contrast for best results.

Right Roof: polka dots
Disregard (just use the polka-dot texture)

Right Wall: stripe columns
1. Fill
2. Subtract stripes
3. Subtract diamond

Suggested to use color with high contrast against white for best results.
Textures II


Left Roof: Stacked Dumbbells
1. (Main color) Fill
2. (Accent color) Add stripes
3. Subtract diamonds

Suggested to use colors with high contrast (both to each other and to white) for best results. If you don't want white, you can fill in a third color (somewhat painstakingly, suggested to use fill bucket).

Left Wall: Diamond Stripes
1. (Accent color) Fill
2. Subtract stripes
3. (Main color) Add diamonds

Suggested to use colors with high contrast (both to each other and to white) for best results. If you don't want white, you can fill in a third color (somewhat painstakingly, suggested to use fill bucket).

Right Roof: horizontal dots
1. (Accent color) Fill
2. (Main color) Add diagonal mesh
3. (Main color) Add diamonds
4. (Main color) Add stripes

Right Wall: Flannel
1. (Accent color) Fill
2. Subtract stripes
3. (Main color) Add diagonal mesh

My favorite multi-step color scheme. Note that this particular scheme only works with similar colors.
Textures III


Left Roof: Dotted Stripes v1
1. (Accent color) Fill
2. (Main color) Add inverted polka dots
3. Subtract dots

Note that the non-pink stripes aren't full yellow but yellow & white dots. You can replace yellow with a higher contrast color (against white) for more visible results.

Left Wall: Special-Cornered Squares
1. (Accent color) Add dots
2. (Main color) Add diamonds

Right Roof: Dotted Diamonds
1. (Accent color) Fill
2. (Main color) Add inverted polka dots
3. Subtract diamonds

Right Wall: Dotted Stripes v2
1. (Main color) Fill
2. (Accent color) ADD diamonds (screenshot is wrong, will fix at some point)
3. Subtract stripes

Suggested to use main color with greater contrast against white. Orange wasn't a great choice.
Textures IV


Left Roof: Diamond Chain v1
1. (Main color) Fill
2. (Accent color) Add diagonal mesh
3. (Accent color) Add stripes
4. (Main color) Add diamonds

Left Wall: Two-Color Polka Dots
1. (Main color) Fill
2. (Accent color) Add stripes
3. Subtract diagonal mesh

Right Roof: Dotted Line Grid
1. (Main color) Fill
2. (Accent color) Add diagonal mesh
3. (Main color) Add diamonds
4. (Main color) Add stripes

Left Wall: Diamond Chain v2
1. (Accent color) Fill
2. (Main color) Add inverted polka dots
3. Subtract diamonds
Honorary Mentions


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Analysing two different methods to applying patterns to decorate houses well. Note that I'm not just using each compartment as a coloring box for random patterns this time but actually treating the houses as, well, houses. Ignore the equation notes in the grass, they were leftover previous trials.

Left house:
Comparing the use of yellow (diagonal mesh) as seen on the wall vs. yellow (fill) as seen on the roof. Even though both of them appear 100% yellow at first glance due to the low contrast between yellow and white, the mesh portion is visibly less attention-grabbing than the filled portion. You can use this technique of low-contrast colors on white to create the illusion of a single-color-fill that is more muted than the real thing.

When paired together, they make for a nice monochrome house.

Right house:
One of my favorite ways to decorate houses is with high contrast stripes on white. Note that the roof is just a single-color fill; the simplicity/stability helps balance out the loudness of the stripes.
To be continued..?
Wait, that's it? D:

Well, sort of... if this guide gets enough interest I'll continue to add more finds. Not sure how much this community reads guides so I didn't want to waste mega time writing Encyclopedia Chicory immediately.
2 Comments
sweaty  [author] 4 Jul, 2023 @ 6:26pm 
aww thanks :tobdog:
Slugcatzilla 23 Jun, 2023 @ 12:32am 
best guide out there :D