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A review by peonyblue
The Art of Map Illustration: A Step-By-Step Artistic Exploration of Contemporary Cartography and Mapmaking by Hennie Haworth, Stuart Hill, James Gulliver Hancock
4.0
I love maps. All kinds of maps. New ones, old ones...any kind. And I like to MAKE maps by hand, though I'm not particularly good at it.
So when I saw this book was coming out, I preordered it based on the subtitle and description, which sort of implied that this was more about cartography and mapmaking by hand.
For what it is, it's a beautiful book, and I learned quite a bit about illustrator/photoshop techniques. However, the handmade aspect of the thing is pretty thin. If you're not working with one of those two Adobe programs, you may not get a whole lot out of the book, in fact. There's a little bit on hand lettering from the artist at the end, but even the bits about hand-drawing the points of interest end up with those drawings being scanned and manipulated digitally.
I still love the book, and it has a place on my shelves, but I do think its name is misleading, as is the description.
So when I saw this book was coming out, I preordered it based on the subtitle and description, which sort of implied that this was more about cartography and mapmaking by hand.
For what it is, it's a beautiful book, and I learned quite a bit about illustrator/photoshop techniques. However, the handmade aspect of the thing is pretty thin. If you're not working with one of those two Adobe programs, you may not get a whole lot out of the book, in fact. There's a little bit on hand lettering from the artist at the end, but even the bits about hand-drawing the points of interest end up with those drawings being scanned and manipulated digitally.
I still love the book, and it has a place on my shelves, but I do think its name is misleading, as is the description.