Outline Buildings

I decided to do some research on the vector outline illustrations and found some really nice ones:

I then did this to one of my maps, it didn’t take long to do and it made a vast change. I’m not sure if it suits or if I like t as much as my original but it it a experiment. I could have done this a number of ways, using illustrator to create a line and then choose the width option to change the size of the line or I could have taken a section into 3d Max and created a spline for around the buildings and changed the width  and exported it out. I also could have done the 3d Max style but then brought it into illustrator and changed the size again but I don’t think any of these would have suited as this was originally a hand drawn map I wanted to keep it hand drawing and adding 3d max and illustrator to make the lines might have taken away from that. It also would have taken much more time. So I drew the lines on. To choose which thickness I should go for I drew a simple building in the same pen as the one I drew the whole map in (o.7) and took a rang of other pens and tried them over the pen over the map pen to see which one was the thickest  The result was a felt black pen which was very thin but had the best impact on the sketch. This was the pen I used for my map.

Pens:

Outline Map:

 

 

I have did this technique twice as I wanted to keep a original black and white but also do a colour study to see what it would look like. Here is my design:

A2 Colour

Once I got my copies I then wanted to colour one of the maps for Thursdays meeting. I wasn’t set on which colours to use for the main builds still as I had to go back to Genevieve’s designs as well  So I started with the rest of the buildings. I used my graphic markers to get more nicer colours and as they were the best that turned out in my designs. The colours I used was pastel colours as the main buildings are the ones that are meant to stick out more on the map. The colours used were pale pink,blue,peach and yellow. The trees were coloured in with a brighter green to add colour and bold to the map. I tried keeping the similar colours for the buildings as they appeared in the original map. Some may seem to far from the original colour but I love the map as it is. I didn’t colour the roofs of the buildings just the bases of the buildings as this is what I started out with but then I really liked the effect it had. The colours for the roofs are mainly blues, black, dark greys etc and I don’t want to add them to this map experiment just yet.

Colour A2 Map:

Colour Selection Palette:

Graphic markers and markers:

My Graphic Markers

Markers

A2 Map

Ok  I am so happy with my map, its a big step up from what I was doing but not I have to find a scanner and finding an A2 scanner is so hard, like its not something simple Iv rang up a load of companies and they either do do A2 printing but they don’t have a A2 scanner I want to scan my map not take a photo of it. The idea of drawing it out on large page was to get more detail on the buildings. If I was to take a photo it wouldn’t get the detail. However all the places I rang up only did printing in A2. The prices for these were also outrages a A2 print on A2 paper was £20 in one of the stores. This maybe because of the quality of the paper though.

I then found a store in Newry called “DOLSOL” a small printing company. I took my map and first I drew around every building again in black pen because the pencil wouldn’t be seen easily on the print out. This gave me the opportunity to neaten things up and give more detail to the amount of windows etc. in the buildings. I then rubbed out all the pencil marks. I love the map now it is so clear and there is detail on it, I’m not sure if there is enough detail but many people and classmates like it and it hasn’t even been coloured in yet.

 

I went to the DOLSOL store and it had everything I was looking for the A2 scanner and printer. The cost for an A2 scanned and printed was only £1.50  in black and white. I was so pleased with the print and the price it was perfect. I got 5 copies of my map to help me have a variety of designs.

A2 Drawing

So I have taken my map and super exposed it onto an A2 page and drawn it out. It did take me a good while to do this but I am very happy with the outcome. Thanks to my supervisor he lent me a projector and I got it done with no fuse. Here are some images of me drawing my map.

I hope to take the map and find a a2 scanner scan it and copy it out a few times in black and white to colour it in.

A3 Map

As I have previously done by taking a isometric grid and creating a isometric map I wanted to explore more onto the other buildings and concentrate on them a bit. As my main buildings are in the map, I have not yet found a way to create, draw the rest. I haven’t done sketches on them, this may be because in my mind they are shuttle buildings to the map. But they do have to be included.

I have taking a old map of the city were the walls really stand our and sketched in the roads and the main buildings leaving only the smaller buildings to be drawn in. I will do this using goggle maps. I used the street view tool on goggle maps to move around the old city and draw them in. Some I can not see what’s behind or what there roofs look like but I have devised away around that. I have only drawn the outer buildings of the streets, ones that I can see the front of and left the inside of the areas clear.

Google map street view:

My Map:

A3 Detailed Map

Close Up

In the old city inside the walls there is a clear four main cross roads with two semi roads that lead out through the walls. I have tried drawing as much of the builds accurately with the amount of windows etc and buildings per road. There are 10 parts in the old city that are like little island as you can drive round all the sections. This was very interesting to find out. The sizes of the buildings are not drawn to scale with each other and there is no colour but I like the way it has turned out. I have also drawn around it in pen so it can been seen clearly.