Drawings
Even before SimCity was invented, I was drawing my own cities and regions on paper. To this day I still tend to doodle street grids and county lines when I'm bored. However, thanks to computer graphics software, I have been able to draw far more advanced "fake maps" digitally.
Here are a few of my creations.
Click here to skip to hand-drawn maps
Maps Drawn by Computer
(best material on top)
NOTE: For most maps, the roads are colored similar to the Rand McNally Road Atlases published in the U.S., e.g., blue freeways, green tollways, etc.
Parsico (2003) Added
11 December 2003
A large metropolitan area. Work in progress.
Libertaria
(2003) - large (1200x1600, 700 KB) - small (600x800, 261 KB)
Added 25 May 2003
A coastal country with seven counties, with
places named after various liberty-related ideas, people,
places, and fictional characters. I began this project in
late 2002 and finished it in the spring of 2003.
San Nicolas (2003)
Added 1 June 2003
An inland city of about 600,000 on a river with
small lakes nearby. The vague resemblance of the freeway
network to San Antonio inspired the city's name. This is
the first computer-drawn map I have done with named roads
and streets. I started this project 2 March 2003 and
finished 1 June 2003.
Womenyu (2001)
Added 14 September 2001
A small country with Asianesque place names,
along with a very different, Slavic-looking foreign
country surrounding it on three sides. The map was drawn
entirely prior to the attacks on America. Names generated
using the LangMaker word-generating program.
Alphabetica (2003)
Added 11 March 2003
This is a state with 26 counties, one for each
letter of the alphabet. Each county has five towns each
beginning with the same letter as the county. Click for
more details.
Abacab/Dukeville (2003)
Added 4 September 2003
A modest metropolitan area (roughly 500,000
people) named after some of my favorite music, especially
the works and members of Genesis, whose albums Abacab
(1981) and Duke (1980) are my two favorite
albums by any artist.
Gridville (2003) Added
9 September 2003
Grids to the extreme! Even the rivers are on a
grid!
Harbor City (2000)
A metro area map inspired by my visits to
Baltimore, Maryland. Drawn in late summer/early fall
2000.
Patagro (2001) added 30 June
2001
A vaguely Slavic-looking group of counties named using
LangMaker.
Bicycle Peninsula (2003) Added 9 September
2003
A coastal peninsula dotted with small villages
connected by bicycle paths and a few motorways.
Hexapolis (2003)
Added 9 September 2003
A metro area with six core cities and several
dozen suburbs.
Slestur/Zeugiod (2003) Added 25 May 2003
Slestur and Zeugiod are two coastal countries
with very different languages. Drawn March 2003. Names
generated by LangMaker.
Bebullen (2002) Added
25 May 2003
Bebullen is an inland town of 50,000 near a
reservoir. This is a map of Bebullen and surrounding
towns, all named using LangMaker. Drawn in the summer of
2002.
The Taffyville Collection
This is
a series of maps I drew in 1995 and 1996 while I was in
college. Taffyville was named for our family cat, Taffy.
I drew the maps with colored pencil on graph paper, and
these are scans of those drawings.
Taffyville
metro area - small - large
Taffyville city map - small - large
Queuedechat/Northern Taffy County map - small - large
Downtown Taffyville map - small - large
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