Poli

mags0607

I was stalking your bio, and I have a question about your map?

How long did it take you to do it? I have been toying with the idea of doing a watercolor one myself because I love them, but don't want to fork out all that money, but I hadn't ever seen anyone try to DIY it. Yours came out really cute.

polichik

Hey Mags! It didn't take me too long... I just opened up Google Maps to get an idea of where things were (although some stuff ended up wonky, ha) and sketched it freehand. I had to scrap the first one because the spacing didn't work, but the second one turned out ok. I'm not sure if you do a lot of watercolor, but it can be really hard to get the color to go where you want it to, at least for me! FI is a landscape architect, so I used his special pens that he uses when he does a rendering. I was really happy with them. So, that was probably much more detailed than what you were looking for, but I'd say it took me about an hour. It's not especially practical, but I figured it would give our mostly OOT guests an idea of where stuff is. Let me know if you end up doing it! I'd love to see it

mags0607

I'm pretty familiar with watercolor, and I have both the regular set of watercolors, and the watercolor pens. Did you use the prismacolor markers, because that might e easier and yours turned out really cute. I'm just worried about getting the spacing right on everything, did you just print out a map and then trace the larger streets from it and fill in landmarks?

polichik

I'm not sure what the markers are called... I can ask FI when I see him tomorrow. I didn't actually trace a map, but it's not exactly to scale. You could probably go either way! I liked how the watercolor ones that I saw just gave you a sense of where things were, but you couldn't use them to navigate or anything.