Tammijoki - a fictional city map set in Finland

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Map in attachments in the end of the post.

This is city map I made back in the summer. It started as a test of how to draw parallel lines with equal distance, to be used in a street map. The test looked so good that I continued it straight away to a complete map. However, after drawing the streets and buildings the map was forgotten for two months, until I finished it with details and colours in July.

In short:

- The map is hand drawn, pen on paper including lettering
- Size is 10 cm x 10 cm = 4'' x '4''
- Lineworkwith Micron pens and colours with Copic pens
- Part of a fictional city, inspired by cities of Finland

This map completely fictional, but it has clear inspiration in the cities and towns in present day Finland, the country I live in. So, the street network, building layout and topography are all similar as in many Finnish towns. Most inspiration was taken from the city of Turku. Because of the setting, the place names are also in Finnish. The street names are quite much the most general names you can imagine.

Although it was fun to think about the typical structure of Finnish towns, most importantly this map was a style test. I compiled style elements from Finnish city maps from late 1800's and early 1900's, and added also some things which were not in any of them. In the end I think I'm really happy how it looks like, and I'm planning to make more maps in the future with a similar style.

Attached is a scan of the coloured map. As the map looked quite nice without colours, too, I thought I'd share it too. What do you think, does the colours make it look better?

Because the size of the map might be a bit difficult to see in the scan, there's also a photograph for reference. The colours is the scan might be a bit too bright, as well, so the photo gives perhaps a more realistic view.

I'd be happy to hear if you have some comments or critique! Especially because I'm planning to make more maps with this style, it would be great to hear if there's something that doesn't really work.