Bringing you up to date on my daily map project. Earlier I wrote about
drawing maps of imaginary places. I'm also using my sketchbook to make maps of real places. Sometimes I print out an actual map and use it as a template; other times I'll look at a real map and draw it by eye.
I may label interesting things that I saw along the way -- on this map, I found a penny in the alley and saw two toilets set out at the curb for the junk pickup.
Frequently I'll map my travels of the day, or draw the neighborhoods where I lived as a kid.
Or I'll copy a map of a faraway city or country.
Sometimes I try to be very accurate --
other times I'll do a "mind map," where I just draw without consulting a source. Often that works out OK, but just not exactly to scale. But sometimes I realize that my mind doesn't map very well. I can drive or walk from Point A to Point B and back with total confidence, but if I start drawing from both points simultaneously they sometimes don't meet in the middle. I label that as the time-space warp.
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