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How I Did It
Tools I Used
Inkscape 0.46
Samples I Used
None
Original Samples
All
Process
Using the Bezier tool in Inkscape I drew a rough cliff top outline on the left. I then tweaked this to make the curves a bit nicer, duplicated and moved to the bottom of what is now the cliff wall. I then drew lines straight up at the apex of each section to make a series of enclosed areas. The I used the bucket fill tool to fill each enclosed area and applied a linear gradient fill, which I duplicated to all the cliff face sections. I deleted all the verticals except the very top end, plus the bottom line. I applied guassian blur and was happy as that made my previously hard edged segments seem much more natural. I then grouped and copied the left to the right side and simply modified the shapes slightly. The top fill is also a simple linear gradient. For a time I did also duplicate the cliff walls and apply a shadow that got darker towards the bottom, but it was too dark.
Other Notes
Didn't know how to do this, but had the idea in my mind. Just had to keep mucking around for a while to figure it out.
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