map sketches – Beaver Island State Park

Started by outlining all the roads/hikes/bike trails on the island before sketching some icons. This place has a ton of icons all over the existing map and includes a golf course, beach, lake house, marina, canoes, basketball/volleyball courts, and playgrounds so the real challenge is fitting all that crap on the actual map without it looking too busy. The final version of the map will be elevated at an angle so this first flat draft I’m working on is more just for fitting everything on there. I’m also going to be adding a zoomed map of the beach itself because it has the most icons to fit onto it. Here’s what I’ve got so far:

Map Project Sketches

Heya, these are my sketches for the Map Project. I’ve attached the rough sketches and whatever I’ve started on Illustrator. Open to any comments, critiques and questions 🙂

My Map is going to be a map of the business district/downtown Utica and its going to feature the main places/sights of downtown utica as well as restaurants and cafes to go to.

Sketch of the layout
These are the icons for the main places I wanted to feature on my Map
Map of Downtown Utica done on Illustrator

This is the Icon I’ll be using to mark out restaurants in this area.

Map Sketches Utica Zoo

So I have an idea for my icons and I’m basically just going to do filled in outlines of each animal they have and place them where they are located. And I will also do illustrations of important building such as gift shops and other buildings. This is just what I got done in class so I’ll post more later.

Map Creation (So far)

Please ignore the fact the icons aren’t on the actual map itself yet. I’ve been struggling to find a way to integrate them, so I plan on having an extra page, where each number correlates to that specific illustration. However, I did choose a color scheme, which I’m pretty happy with, and start to digitize the layout. I also managed to do two flower illustrations. I’ll be refining them a bit more, but this is what I have so far.