Illustrated Map Creation: Reflecting a City's Essence

Overview

“In this lesson you will work from an original map (might have to check copyright law on Google, if not possible, you will need to find a copyright-free map to work from) to get a rough outline of roads and locations. You will choose the right size for your artwork depending on the place you are illustrating and what you are including and I will explain why this is so important.”

In this video lesson Stef Maden addresses the topic: Draft, 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

“In this lesson, i will take you through how to create a draft for your final map. So what I would usually have when I'm creating a draft in front of me is some reference, so this could be from Google or maybe you've already got some reference from a tourism trip that you've made. In front of me here, I've got a map of Paris that I've printed from Google, and you will also need some plain paper. It doesn't have to be expensive watercolor paper at this point because this is just a rough sketch. we're not going to be doing anything with this apart from scanning it into the computer. and I usua...”

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Course summary for: Illustrated Map Creation: Reflecting a City's Essence

• Level: Beginner
• 98% positive reviews (260)
• 6390 students
• 4 units
• 19 lessons (3h 19m)
• 5 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Software

  Adobe Photoshop

• Areas

  Digital Illustration, Digital Painting, Drawing, Infographics, Traditional illustration