Click on each image for the larger or working view.

For cityscapes, sidewalks are ubiquitous which makes them good textures to include in your texture grab bag.

The upper picture is a longer view, showing a few of the seams or joints that run between the blocks.  I believe the seams are some sort of brown felt strips. The bottom view is a close up, and if you look at the expanded views, you can get a pretty good idea of the sidewalk’s composition.  This one shouldn’t be too difficult but should be very useful.

DarkTrees

Comments

“Here is RorrKonn’s DarkTree for this month.  He especially does a nice job with the color (always).”  Leslie

RorrKonn’s comments:“We are always in need of more Concrete :-) This Month’s Challenge was a lot of fun.” RorrKonn

 

RorrKonn

RorrKonn’s .dsts file

“This sidewalk texture is from Michael Fross - looks great and thanks for contributing a challenge Frosty!” Leslie
 

Frosty’s comments:“Here is my attempt at the concrete challenge this month. I tried to keep it simple and I think it looks good (although I like RorrKonn's better). Any feedback would be great since I am still struggling to learn all the components and how they interact with the others.” Michael Fross

 

Michael Fross

Frosty’s .dsts file

“Alain Bertrand sent in this texture.  He always does a nice job.” Leslie

Alain’s comments: “This month was easier... or at least I prefer the result. If you zoom the texture you will see the gravel structure (flagstone) in the brick component. I started with this, got the small gravel inside the cement, then put a brick component to get the segments of cement separated by dust/gravel. Enjoy” Alain

 

Alain Bertrand

Alain’s .dsts file

“This is Sky’s sidewalk. Take a look at his DarkTree, and how he used two copies of the Gravel component (one with a black background) to get his rocks to fade to black rather than the background color. A neat trick!” Leslie

 

Sky Swanson

Sky’s .dsts file

“This is my DarkTree of a sidewalk.  Actually I copied some general ideas from Sky’s sidewalk, principally his use of the Gravel component, but I did add my own ideas as well.” Leslie

 

Grimalkin

Grimalkin’s .dsts file

Notice: I will be out of town for a few days; so the new challenge won’t be posted until after I return next week. Leslie

I’m sorry I haven’t gotten an end-of-month image done for March. Actually I have one, but so far it looks too horrible to even contemplate posting here. Even I have my pride.  Maybe later!