I realised today that I have not popped in here for an age... This year has been crazy in many not-mapping time-eating ways.

This is my most recent personal project though, finished a couple months ago.
I really wanted to have a go a drawing a town that is mostly over water, on docks and rafts and old ships, with the land used for crops, plantations and food-forests... and which felt as tropical as possible.

The clouds are perhaps a little too much..... But my favorite thing to do with a map is to create a sense of depth, and without them it really looks so very flat.
The frame is inspired by Tapa-cloth patterning style of the Collingwood Bay area of Papua New Guinea


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