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| Illustrated Map of Coney Island. gouache, watercolor, and acrylic |
This is piece was actually created for a map designing contest. I decided to pick one of my favorite places to make a map of, Coney Island, where cheesy good fun is endless (and so is the funnel cake). While its more of an illustration than a map you can still tell (hopefully) where things are.
Let me tell you one thing, illustrated map making, or at least like this, is really really really hard. Because there's so many elements I wanted to fit in, well its Coney Island it awesome and you really must include all the awesomeness that you can, I had to make individual little drawings of all the different attractions on tracing paper and keep moving things around to make everything fit before I traced everything onto the final piece of paper that I worked on. The planning out the entire map was the biggest time drain in the world. But the finished product is a pretty cool illustrated map. I'd love to make some more maps like this, preferably on a larger scale. Below are some of the individual sketches that I had to piece together in order to make the map.
