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I've got a bunch of illustrations in this week's
RFT -- including the cover and a big indexed map -- for a feature story on literary goings / geographical locales / (mostly) unflattering mentions of our fine, hot dilapidated city.
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It's kinda similar to this
ARCH MADNESS map I did, but specially about book 'n writers 'n stuff.
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My first impulse was to do a pop-up book, and for a while I tried to make an actual 3D pop-up book that would be photographed:
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I had a hard time making that work, with the angles and actual street data, so I went back to the 2D drawing board. I built my map with vectors...
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Then hand-traced it with a lightbox:
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I did a bunch of li'l spot illustrations ...
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and added them -- along with new type and color and everything -- here:
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We stuck with the "literary tourist" idea for the cover illustration:
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And I drew it.
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Good luck, and stay cool out there book fans!