Overview
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Find out how to use Adobe Illustrator to create a simplified map for routes, locations and guides.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Drawing simplified maps
- What you should know before watching this course
- Defining a map
- Challenge: Location checking
- Solution: Location checking
- Reference and copyright
- Appearances and graphic styles
- Dotted lines and arrowheads
- Challenge: Railroad
- Solution: Railroad
- Creating color schemes
- Import styles and colors
- Masks
- Importing a sketch
- Challenge: Drawing
- Styling a layer
- Drawing a river
- Using a pattern texture
- Adding areas
- Challenge: Add buildings
- Solution: Add buildings
- Labels
- Labelling roads
- Nested dynamic symbols
- Challenge: Resolving issues
- Solution: Resolving issues
- Clipping the map
- Using projections
- Mapping art
- Perspective grid
- Next steps
