Greetings! I am currently working on an illustrative hand-drawn map of Europe and just wrapped up Finland last night. Total drawing time was 21 hours plus many hours of research. I visited Finland back in 2019 for a week and had a lovely time sightseeing in Helsinki and visiting a friend in Tampere so working on Finland the past few weeks has been a joy. The orientation of the map is rather unique with north facing to the right in the map (see bottom right image for the map perspective I am using as a reference). This has allowed for much greater detail in Eastern Europe, Russia, and of course Finland!! Overall I have put in over 240 hours of work on the map and hope to be done in 2023. Feel free to check out my website and subscribe at the bottom for updates: https://davidcookmapart.squarespace.com/
This is very cool! However, Kouvola is missing “Pohjolatalo” 😀
Why is Suomineito on her back tho?
WHY IS THIS WEST-UP INSTEAD OF NORTH-UP
Cool drawings.
Imo, not 100% perfect perspective. Like having Kuopio and Kajaani so close to West coast feels weird, those are still considered Eastern towns. But I appreciate the effort.
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Greetings! I am currently working on an illustrative hand-drawn map of Europe and just wrapped up Finland last night. Total drawing time was 21 hours plus many hours of research. I visited Finland back in 2019 for a week and had a lovely time sightseeing in Helsinki and visiting a friend in Tampere so working on Finland the past few weeks has been a joy. The orientation of the map is rather unique with north facing to the right in the map (see bottom right image for the map perspective I am using as a reference). This has allowed for much greater detail in Eastern Europe, Russia, and of course Finland!! Overall I have put in over 240 hours of work on the map and hope to be done in 2023. Feel free to check out my website and subscribe at the bottom for updates: https://davidcookmapart.squarespace.com/
This is very cool! However, Kouvola is missing “Pohjolatalo” 😀
Why is Suomineito on her back tho?
WHY IS THIS WEST-UP INSTEAD OF NORTH-UP
Cool drawings.
Imo, not 100% perfect perspective. Like having Kuopio and Kajaani so close to West coast feels weird, those are still considered Eastern towns. But I appreciate the effort.