Illustrated Map Creation: Reflecting a City's Essence
Choose a Place
A course by Stef Maden , Designer and Illustrator
About the video: Choose a Place
Overview
“In this lesson we will ask ourselves questions in order to choose the place we want to illustrate. You will learn how to research landmarks or places to highlight and illustrate. We will discuss how to gather reference through photographs, travel books and the internet to help us later on when we come to paint.”
In this video lesson Stef Maden addresses the topic: Choose a Place, which is part of the Domestika online course: Illustrated Map Creation: Reflecting a City's Essence. Create an illustrated map to represent iconic places of a city using manual techniques and digital collage.
Partial transcription of the video
“A lot of my maps are personal projects and they are usually based on places that I've already been to. In front of me here, I've got an example of one of my maps that was based on a trip that I made in 2017. To create this map, I used a lot of my own reference. So as you can see here, I've got some photographs from when I was on the trip. And this really helped inform me to make this map. When choosing the place to base your final illustrated map, It might be a really nice idea to pick somewhere that you've already been In this way, it will make the map more special to you. It could be some...”
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Course summary for: Illustrated Map Creation: Reflecting a City's Essence
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Digital Illustration, Digital Painting, Drawing, Infographics, Traditional illustration
Stef Maden
A course by Stef Maden
Stef Maden is a designer and illustrator from the UK who discovered her passion for illustration as a teenager, realizing soon after that her dream job was to become an illustrator. Since obtaining her degree in illustration, Stef has worked as an in-house designer for greeting card companies and created artwork for products like gift bags, wrapping paper, packaging, and stationery
Her recent illustration projects include patterns for children’s clothing and editorial work for magazines. Stef’s prints can be found in her online shop, as well as for clients such as Sainsbury's, Hallmark, Paperchase, and Tesco.
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