Isometric Map Illustration: Capture a City's Vibrancy

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.

• 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