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: