stage 1st - We were told make a vector map of our locality, where we had to try to make it understandable and as detailed as possible in our own creative ways and perspective. This was a really interesting assignment to do for me personally since I got another reason to explore my city again, the area i chose was the university near by my house where, i almost go 5 to 6 days in week to talk or to get up and freshen up a little in outdoors, especially to enjoy the days with good weather, for me this was new thing to make since i brainstorm to make this map in a different way from others, for me signs are more of different patterns when it comes to drawing & again this assignment gave me reason to visit my favorite as usual but this time i observed things more keenly and got more interested to explore every little details of that area and than put that whole thing on to a piece of paper.
stage 2nd - we are in our 2nd stage of our vector illustrated map, where we were assigned
to out line our map on illustrator. It was quit a learning process as I learned more about
tools on illustrator.
talking about the vibe of this place its silence , full of trees, free space.
place where I go whenever I feel low just to regain my energy .
We were assigned to make digital location sign for our digital map that we had created the before we had to make the location symbol as per the different places on the map
The location sign was a little tricky to be made as I face some difficulties while making the icon since the icon was made of two different basic shapes it was difficult to Merge both of them and create the icon that looks like it, this icon was to be used in the illustrated map that has been made before so as to depict the different locations in the map, the process of making the location icon started with blending two different shapes together with the use of shape building tool.
further to decide the colour of the icon I chose red because the major part of the map was dominated by the green colour so as to make the icon stand out in the illustrated map I choose the colour red to make it look more attractive, so i kept the colour in contrast.
Talking about the vector map, after finishing the line drawing when it was time to to fill the colours in the map, main struggle was to choose the colour and decide what colour to be used in which place since it was difficult to visualize the colours in different places in the map, that's why I kept the colour simple and used the basics colours first, it had more or green shades and used free hand strokes in natural objects like ponds, trees in the map, and used a structural way for depicting the man made things in the map like roads, building etc. Further I segregated the objects in the map so as to give it a 3D effect I tried to give it a shadow effect in the objects that above from the ground level for example the tree is the building and give it a shadow effect so as to make it more alive and the rest of the objects which were on the brown were left the same as they were also to make the map look more alive and proportionate I played with the size of the objects in the vector map for example differentiating between the sizes of the sea and the buildings and also the number of trees so as to differentiate the two areas in the map and create a certain balance it.
Since I also wanted to mention the local areas in the map I feel the map was still incomplete on my part and I felt the map was incomplete on certain parts since the things on the map I repeated were a little more monotorious and some of the things I visualized warrant exactly there inspite of having all the elements, and I'm still trying to work on it and achieve the thought I had.
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