{"id":1788795,"date":"2020-04-27T08:32:38","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T12:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1788795"},"modified":"2020-04-27T08:32:38","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T12:32:38","slug":"how-to-make-an-illustrated-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/04\/how-to-make-an-illustrated-map\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Make an Illustrated Map"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1788796\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1788796\" style=\"width: 840px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/04\/26\/travel\/how-to-make-an-illustrated-map-in-8-steps.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1788796\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/04\/how-to-make-an-illustrated-map\/padavick-nytimes\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/padavick-nytimes.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1200,1200\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"padavick-nytimes\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Nate Padavick (The New York Times)&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/padavick-nytimes-300x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/padavick-nytimes-1024x1024.jpg\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1788796\" src=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/padavick-nytimes-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Five Squares + One Triangle in My Neighborhood (Nate Padavick)\" width=\"840\" height=\"840\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/padavick-nytimes-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/padavick-nytimes-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/padavick-nytimes-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/padavick-nytimes.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1788796\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nate Padavick (The New York Times)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In the travel section of yesterday\u2019s <em>New York Times<\/em>, map illustrator <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idrawmaps.com\">Nate Padavick<\/a> offers a way to make lemonade from travel-restriction lemons with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/04\/26\/travel\/how-to-make-an-illustrated-map-in-8-steps.html\">a short guide to making an illustrated map<\/a> (pictorial map, map illustration\u2014the terms are roughly interchangeable) of a favourite place\u2014a neighbourhood, a vacation spot, \u201ca place you\u2019ve never been.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/04\/26\/travel\/how-to-make-an-illustrated-map-in-8-steps.html\"><p>The rigid and scientific rules of cartography simply do not apply here! Nope. While an illustrated map is often a wildly useless tool for providing directions, it can be a beautiful and highly personal reflection of a place you, friends and family know quite well. It can tell a story, a personal history, or be a unique lens through which one can experience a special place. An illustrated map can be loose and hand-drawn, filled with fun drawings and doodles that together make a sometimes inaccurate, but always spot on record of a memory or a place from one\u2019s own perspective.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not the first time we\u2019ve seen map art as lockdown activity. Previously: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/04\/maps-from-isolation\/\">Maps from Isolation<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/04\/citylab-wants-your-hand-drawn-quarantine-maps\/\">CityLab Wants Your Hand-Drawn Quarantine Maps<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/03\/still-more-coronavirus-maps\/\">Still More Coronavirus Maps<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/03\/fullers-quarantine-maps\/\">Fuller\u2019s Quarantine Maps<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the travel section of yesterday\u2019s New York Times, map illustrator Nate Padavick offers a way to make lemonade from travel-restriction lemons with a short guide to making an illustrated map (pictorial map, map illustration\u2014the&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/04\/how-to-make-an-illustrated-map\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[140,460],"class_list":["post-1788795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-art","tag-new-york-times","tag-pictorial-maps","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1700,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/04\/20th-century-new-york\/","url_meta":{"origin":1788795,"position":0},"title":"20th-Century New York","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"22 April 2016","format":"link","excerpt":"Gothamist looks at\u00a0A Map of the Wondrous Isle of Manhattan, a pictorial map from 1926 created by Charles Vernon Farrow. [NYPL] Mosaic map murals graced the Times Square Information Center when it opened in 1957. 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(If you can't go there physically, there's plenty online at the link, too.) \"Curated by Dr. Stephen J. Hornsby, co-editor of the Historical Atlas of Maine\u00a0[previously]\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Antique Maps&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Antique Maps","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/antique-maps\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"The Capital of a New Trade Empire, 1929. Sheet map, 33\u00d730 cm. Osher Map Library, University of Southern Maine.","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/pictorial-maps-cleveland-1024x924.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/pictorial-maps-cleveland-1024x924.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/pictorial-maps-cleveland-1024x924.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/pictorial-maps-cleveland-1024x924.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1822223,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2023\/12\/anton-thomass-wild-world-is-out-in-the-world\/","url_meta":{"origin":1788795,"position":2},"title":"Anton Thomas&#8217;s Wild World Is Out in the World","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"14 December 2023","format":"link","excerpt":"Earlier this year Anton Thomas finished his Wild World map\u2014a hand-drawn pictorial map of the natural world on the Natural Earth projection\u2014and prints and posters have been shipping out. I\u2019ve covered Wild World before on The Map Room, but this is news I somehow missed at the time. But this\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Art&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Art","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/art\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Anton Thomas's Wild World, a hand-drawn pictorial map of the world featuring wildlife.","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/anton-thomas-wild-world-1024x533.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/anton-thomas-wild-world-1024x533.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/anton-thomas-wild-world-1024x533.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/anton-thomas-wild-world-1024x533.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":5498,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2017\/10\/you-are-here-nyc-mapping-the-soul-of-the-city\/","url_meta":{"origin":1788795,"position":3},"title":"You Are Here: NYC: Mapping the Soul of the City","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"24 October 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"An exhibition taking place now at the New York City Library,\u00a0Picturing the City: Illustrated Maps of NYC, features 16 pictorial maps from the Library's collection of illustrations. 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These aren't the only\u00a0examples of persuasive cartography or of pictorial maps of this or other wars, but I imagine they'll be front and centre at a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Antique Maps&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Antique Maps","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/antique-maps\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"war-map","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/war-map.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/war-map.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/war-map.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/war-map.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1786318,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/09\/the-north-american-continent-a-pictorial-map-by-anton-thomas\/","url_meta":{"origin":1788795,"position":5},"title":"The North American Continent: A Pictorial Map by Anton Thomas","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"24 September 2018","format":"link","excerpt":"Since 2014 Anton Thomas has been working on a large and detailed hand-drawn pictorial map of North America. Done on a 120-\u00d7-150-cm piece of art paper with coloured pencils and pen, and full of little pictorial details, The North American Continent has taken more than 4,000 hours to draw\u2014and re-draw.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Art&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Art","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/art\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/anton-thomas-north-america-detail-1024x563.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/anton-thomas-north-america-detail-1024x563.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/anton-thomas-north-america-detail-1024x563.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/anton-thomas-north-america-detail-1024x563.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1788795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1788795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1788795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1788797,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1788795\/revisions\/1788797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1788795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1788795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1788795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}