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Isometric Map Illustration: Capture a City's Vibrancy

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Overview

Learn how to create a colourful detailed map to express the energy of a city
  • Introduction
  • Preparation for Map Making
  • Producing Your Map
  • Final Touches and Promoting Your Work
  • Final project
Have you ever wished you could relive your favorite holiday? It’s a skill illustrator and printmaker Jess Wilson has made possible through the creation of highly-detailed isometric maps. Her work captures some of the most famous cities in the world in 3D and are designed to help you remember a place you love.

In this course, Jess shares how to bring a city to life through illustration. Explore the tools you need to not only draw a place which is close to your heart, but to capture its personality and atmosphere in map-form through intricate shapes and energetic brush strokes.

Syllabus

  • About Me
  • Influences
  • What Is a Map?
  • Materials
  • Choosing a Location and Mapping It
  • Isometric Drawing: Creating Building Roughs 1
  • Isometric Drawing: Creating Building Roughs 2
  • Placing the Isometric Drawing on the Google Map
  • Adding Text: Creating the Roads and Underground Signs
  • Adding Space Fillers
  • Colour Palette and Tidying Up Your Work
  • How to Print the Map and Frame It
  • How to Share Your Work
  • Isometric Map Illustration: Capture a City's Vibrancy

Taught by

Jess Wilson

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