About this Page:
This page took me a lot longer than I anticipated, but it is a concept that, as a student, I struggled with and wanted to do my best to do it some justice. As a student, I didn’t understand the whole plastic shape thing that the teacher was wrapping around the globe. I don’t know if you’ve ever seen this demonstration, or maybe you even conduct it yourself, but the concept of unwrapping the blasted image always escaped me. I tried my hardest to explain it in words that, I myself, would use in class.
I’m quite proud of my interrupted globe illustration, and all of these map illustrations were created in Autodesk Sketchbook. Here is the reference image that I used for the azimuthal, to trace with varying line weights, then apply my book colors, and then add the “grid” layer on top. I used my new favorite map projection website for all of my reference images on this page. Check out the side! What’s your favorite projection? I always liked saying, Goode-Homosoline, and it has nice curves. I am a big fan of the most unconventional maps, mostly because I imagine someone out there giving a big middle-finger to the Mercators of the world (eh-hmmmm….Peters). Not that I am like that! But it’s always a bit funny to imagine people in the academia world fighting each other with academic journals and map creations instead of fisticuffs.
As always, thanks to Dan Harris for my characters, the rest of the page was illustrated by myself.
Enjoy the day!
