A fan from Italy emailed a whole bunch of questions, so I'm going to break them up into a series of posts under the new "mail" tag.

Q: Is there enough in the Google Docs to play?

A: The Google Docs are found at http://bit.ly/DoPilgrims1 and http://bit.ly/DoPilgrims2

Yes, you can play Do from what is in those google docs. The fundamental rules are in place as well as advice and examples of play. The parts that are not yet written, about writing letters and some best practices, are very esoteric and not REALLY directly related to actual play.

The one drawback is that those docs are REALLY long. They're much longer than what will be in the final book. I wrote all of that content assuming that the editor will delete about half of it, so only the necessary parts will remain. If you're willing to dig through my cluttered text and too-extensive examples of play, be my guest! :D

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It's been a while since I posted a screencast, so here's one of my process coloring one of Liz Hooper's black and white illustrations. (In HD Widescreen!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJ-76YVcTsE

So, I'm taking her black and white pencil illustrations and adding sepia tones to create atmospheric perspective.

For each plane of perspective, I use quickmask and a soft brush to outline each subject.
Then I use that selection to make a layer mask around that subject, so only the subject is visible.
Then I use a screened color overlay on that layer so that the blacks turn into my desired sepia tones.

Repeat for each plane of perspective, making sure that the closer subjects are darker and higher contrast while the farther subjects are lighter and lower contrast.

Once the colors are in place, I add an offwhite paper texture on top of everything and Multiply that, to give everything a warm tone. I carefully mask out sections that should be lighter, though.

After that, I screen a grayscale watercolor texture to the paper texture, so the whites are knocked out of the paper, creating a cloudy washy feel. I add several of these watercolor textures to the clouds to they are brighter than the sky in the background.