Handmade Hawaiian Islands Map

erik-gauger an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Hi all — thanks for the comments and discussion. A few people correctly pointed out that calling these maps "hand-painted" was misleading, and that’s correct. The previous version of the map, which I replaced a few days ago, was entirely hand-painted. These new maps are mixed-media...probably about 80% Adobe Fresco (a tablet drawing app), but both also incorporate physical watercolor and Copic marker layers that I scanned into the final artwork. Most of my maps are still primarily hand-painted, with just place names in Photoshop. My Cuba map is probably a better example of that approach. The goal of this update wasn't about art...I wanted maps that better tell the full story of the Hawaiian Islands. The history and geography of all those atolls and maps are fascinating, and I do geek out/recommend a Google Earth/Wikipedia rabbit hole of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands for anyone interested in remote islands.

	▲	_fs 9 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I have a fondness for map making and I enjoy your style regardless of digital or physical media. Have you ever created an article on your process? I'd be interested in reading about your flow.

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MisterTea 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Disappointed we aren't shown the actual, physical hand drawn maps.

And the font used seems very familiar so I assume the text was added during the digital manipulation phase?

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_fs 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I do not think there are any hand drawn maps. From what I can tell, its Adobe fresco with digital watercolor and digital copic pens. Still looks great, but there is a lot of confusion on the process.

	▲	MisterTea 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That makes sense. The wording made it sound like it was hand drawn on a medium like paper, not a computer. To me, hand drawn implies using physical paper and marking tools. This is digital illustration which implies hand drawn input to a computer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_illustration

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stronglikedan 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

there's more map than text on that page, so maybe something wrong with your browser

	▲	MisterTea 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The font on the map, not the web page text.

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nickandbro 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

One of those islands, Lānaʻi, is 98% owned by Larry Ellison

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svachalek 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Ni'ihau is also privately owned, and Kauai is also home to a few gigantic personal properties.

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keybored 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I expected a mostly privately owned island to be much smaller than that.

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asdff 3 hours ago | parent [-]

It is so massive he has to make affordances Epstein never had to. You can visit Lanai today for example. I took a day trip there a couple years ago. Saw the cat sanctuary. Not much else to do there. There is a little holdover company town inland from the Dole days but I didn't visit that. I'm not sure how much time Ellison even spends there. I get the sense that having these some 3k common folk holdout residents plus visitors makes it a bit less attractive than it might have seemed when he signed his name on 98% of a Hawaiian island. Seems a couple years ago he shifted his primary residency to his mansion near Mar a Lago. Bored of the plaything now, I guess.

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WalterBright 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I spent some time on a Pacific island. After a couple weeks, I ran out of things to do and places to go, and was bored stiff.

	▲	hparadiz 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Maui was like that for me after a few months. I found the timezone more alianating than the location.

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dylan604 an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

This is probably his zombie apocalypse location that he has on stand by