Tag: procreate
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TAUGHANNOCK GORGE
This map(?) of Taughannock Gorge, located in the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York, was drawn with the Procreate app on iPad and printed out using a risograph. A risograph printer is sort of like a hybrid of photocopiers and screen printing. Like photocopiers, they have a scan bed on the top (though I…
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GREAT LAKES POSTCARD
This was a quick afternoon project to experiment with a hand-drawn workflow. Using Natural Earth data, I exported out three reference images from QGIS (lakes, urban areas, and city points) into the Procreate app on iPad. Then I manually drew out the lakes, shore outlines, urban areas, and city points by hand using a modified…
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WATERFALLS OF ITHACA
This map may forever be “in-progress”. Having recently moved from Tallahassee, Florida over to Ithaca, New York, I wanted to work on a project that could help familiarize me with the area, and settled on the idea of a comprehensive map of Ithaca’s many waterfalls. Given my experience with waterfalls in Florida—where every bit of…
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EULER SPIRAL CARD
This piece was created for Daniel Huffman’s map projection trading cards project. The idea is to have a set of trading cards for carto-enthusiasts to collect and exchange at conferences, featuring the wide variety of map projections out there. The maps on the cards showcasing these projections are all designed by volunteer cartographers. For my…