How to Make Hand-Drawn Maps: A Creative Guide with Tips, Tricks, and Projects
- ISBN-10
- 1452169918
- ISBN-13
- 9781452169910
- Category
- Art
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2018-05-01
- Publisher
- Chronicle Books
- Author
- Helen Cann
Description
With wonderful examples and easy-to-follow instructions, this beautifully illustrated how-to book makes it simple and fun to create one-of-a-kind hand-drawn maps. Helpful templates, grids, and guidelines complement a detailed breakdown of essential cartographic elements and profiles of talented international map artists. From city maps and family trees to treasure maps, palmistry charts, platformgame maps, and more, the wide range of projects collected here will satisfy first-time cartographers as well as veteran mapmakers inspired by the popular map art trend.
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- 2018-05-22
- 192 pages
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- Chronicle Books
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