Imaginative Map-Making in Procreate

1. Introduction: Are you seeking a peaceful getaway from your busy life? Imagine you could escape to far off serene locations crafted by your own creativity. In this class, you'll find a perfect blend of relaxation and creative expression. Welcome to imaginative mapmaking in Procreate, where self care meets creativity? In this class, we'll create stunning maps that will whisk you away to tranquil countrysides, dreamy deserts, and enchanting islands? But creating art is not just about the final product, it's about the journey. It's a wonderful way to relax, destress, and let your creativity flow. I've designed this class to be the ideal escape, offering a serene and creative way to relax and rejuvenate. Hi, I'm Lisa Bardo. And for almost a decade, I've helped millions of people all over the world find their creativity through drawing on the iPad. I teach pro create classes, make digital art tools. I've been writing an ongoing art challenge and recently authored my first book all about learning how to draw on the iPad. Through all of this, I've built a supportive community where people can overcome creative fears and find joy in making art. Creativity is my form of self care, and this class is designed to share that experience with you. You'll explore various visual styles and color palettes, and as a student of this class, you'll get access to my mapmaking brush pack. Set of 30 procreate brushes for easy creative mapmaking. From roads and rivers to trees and rocks, you'll have everything you need to bring your maps to life. This class is for artists of all skill levels, and it's perfect for anyone looking for a relaxing, creative escape. Some experience using procreate is helpful, but don't worry I will guide you through every step of the way. You'll need an iPad running procreate, an apple pencil, and of course, my map making brush pack, which you can download in the class. I'll also teach you how to create your own custom brushes, adding a personal touch to your maps. Along the way, you'll pick up procreate tricks and tips, like working with layers, using clipping masks, and applying effects. This course isn't just about making maps, it's about making art for relaxation. I'll share techniques to get you in the right mindset for your creative practice so you can unwind and immerse yourself in the process. By the end, you'll have the skills to create your own maps anytime, anywhere, and find joy in your creative flow. I'm so excited for you to join me in imaginative mapmaking in P create and discover how creativity can be a form of self care. Together, we'll create beautiful maps and enjoy a calming, fulfilling, artistic journey. 2. Class Project: Welcome to class. I'm so excited for you to join me as we dive into relaxing mapmaking and procreate. We'll be exploring different environments such as the rural countryside, tropical islands, deserts, and more. As you take these lessons, you're welcome to follow along with me and replicate what I'm doing. However, I do encourage you to just let your own imagination take center stage. The beauty of the method we'll explore is that you can really get into a flow state and follow your whims. It's incredibly relaxing, so I do encourage you to do your own thing as you listen to these lessons. For example, as you're going along, you might play something here and then put something over there. It can be whatever you want. The key here is to immerse yourself in the process and not go into a mapmaking session with an idea of what the final piece will look like. Just relax and enjoy the process. Once you've completed all the lessons and you're familiar with the map making process, you'll be ready to sit down anytime you want and enjoy the relaxing experience of making maps and Procreate. Be sure to share your work by posting a class project. On the Skillshare class page under the Projects and Resources tab, click the button that says Submit Project. This is where you can showcase the maps you've created by following along in the lessons, as well as your own original maps. And also take a moment to write about your creative journey. Describe any techniques or ideas that you use and explain how you approach the project. And then also reflect on how you helped yourself relax and get into the flow of art making. And then you can, of course, share any tips and tricks that you learned about how to get into that relaxed state with your fellow members by posting them in your project. I've got a lesson that will give you some relaxation techniques for getting in the right mindset for art making. But if there's anything that you found that works really well from you, it'd be really nice to include that in your project. I can't wait to see your beautiful maps and hear about your creative process. 3. Tools & Materials: To follow on in this class, you're going to need an iPad running Procreate. I am running version 5.3 0.9. And then I also recommend an Apple pencil. It's absolutely the best tool for drawing on your iPad, and I cannot recommend it enough. And then, of course, you're going to need my mapmaking brush pack, which you can download on the projects and resources tab of the Skill share class page. Let me give you a little tour of the mapmaking brush pack and show you what's inside. Let's take a look inside the map making brush pack. The first couple brushes are great for drawing details. These are the liner brushes. So the first one is liner, and this one is pressure sensitive for size. And then we also have the liner mono, and this is a monoid brush, so it is not pressure sensitive. And then we have a few brushes that are good for drawing pathways, roads, and rivers. So this is the pathways brush. Pathways outline is really cool because when you overlap a stroke, they connect together as long as you don't lift your pencil up. And then multi line. I really like this one for doing rivers. There's a gritty texture brush for adding a weathered touch to map details. This is the same texture that's built into all of the next groups of brushes. There are seven creative line brushes, including dashes, dots, zigzags, loops, squiggles, scallops, and waves. And there's even a crosswalk brush. There are also several vegetation brushes to create different kinds of trees, cacti, grass, and more. And then there's a few brushes for making land texture information like hills and mountains, and a couple more fun things like these fish and some tents. Your download also includes a map customizer set. And in here, we've got five template brushes that help you create your very own map making brushes. We're going to explore this in the dreamy Deserts lesson. And then we also have this chunk brush, which you can use to draw the map elements. A couple of notes about these brushes. All of the brushes have a saved brush size. So when you draw a map, you can use the brushes at their save size to keep all the elements in more or less the same scale with each other. But of course, you can adjust the size of map elements by adjusting the brush size slider. If you're following along in the lessons, I will be using the saved brush size unless otherwise noted. All of the stamp and scatter brushes will be oriented to the iPad screen. If you wanted to change the angle of map elements, you can just turn your canvas a little bit to adjust the angle of your stamp. And most of the brushes are pressure sensitive for size and texture. So the harder you press, the bigger will be, and the denser the texture will be. If you tap lightly, you'll get smaller shapes, that will show a lot more texture. That's it for now. In our next lesson, we're going to explore a few relaxation tips before we jump into our first map. 4. Relax into Map-Making: The idea to make this class came to me one day when my 7-year-old daughter asked me to draw maps with her. It had been a really long, stressful day, and all I really wanted to do was go veg out on the couch. But I said, yes, grab some crayons in a piece of paper and sat down beside her. I had no idea what I was going to make, so I just started drawing meandering lines across the page, which became roads and adding little houses here and there. Then I drew a creek with some bridges, a little barn, windmill, trees all around, and why not a sunflower field, too. As I let my mind wander and fill the spaces with whatever came to my mind, I felt my stress melt away. It was surprisingly soothing. In that moment, I was reminded how important creativity is for relaxation. That spontaneous, make it up as you go map was tremendously helpful for me achieving that relaxed state, and I really wanted to share that feeling with others. So that night, I sat down with my iPad and started making brushes and developing the process that you'll be learning in this class. Yes, what you'll learn in this class will help you make adorable illustrated maps, but you'll also learn techniques to help you achieve a relaxed, creative state whenever you need it. So before we dive into the creative process, let's take a moment to explore some techniques that will help get you in the right mindset for art making. These methods will set the perfect mood for your mapmaking journey, and can be used to support your creative practice at any time, whether you're painting, sketching, doing digital art, or any other type of creative expression. I wanted to remind you that these are just suggestions. Don't feel discouraged if you can't implement all of these before you start your art making session. Even if you only try out one or two of these tips, it can still make a big difference. The key is to find what works best for you and your routine. So take what resonates, experiments, and most importantly, enjoy the process. Tip one, creating your relaxation space. First things first, let's set up your space for some relaxing art making. Find a quiet and comfy spot where you can work without interruptions. Think about things like lighting and ambience. Some people love natural light streaming in, while others prefer a cozy, dimly lit space. Play around with different setups until you find what feels right for you. Tip two, mindfulness and meditation. Mindfulness and meditation are great for calming your mind and getting focused. Before you start your art session, take a few moments to do some deep breathing or a short guided meditation. Close your eyes, breathe in deeply through your nose, and slowly exhale through your mouth. Notice any tension and let it go with each breath. Get fully present, letting go of any stress or distractions. Tip three, engage your senses. Engaging your senses can really help ground you and spark your creativity. Try adding some sensory elements to your art making routine. Play some soft music or ambient sounds to create a soothing vibe, light a scented candle or use essential oils to bring in some pleasant aromas. Tip four, rituals and routines. Having rituals and routines can signal to your brain that it's time to get creative. Setting up a pre art making ritual can help get you into the flow. It could be something simple like brewing a cup of tea, jotting down your intentions for the session, or doing a few stretches to release tension. Find what resonates with you and make it a part of your creative practice. Lastly, don't forget to embrace imperfection. Art making is all about self expression, and it's totally okay to make mistakes along the way. Let yourself experiment, take risks, and play around with different ideas without judgment. The key is to enjoy the process and trust your creative instincts. As you start your artistic journey, remember that relaxation is a crucial part of the creative process. By incorporating some of these relaxation techniques into your routine, you will cultivate a sense of calm and openness that will help support you in your artistic endeavors. So take a deep breath, relax, and let your creativity flow. 5. Map 1: Carefree Countryside: Welcome to our first mapmaking lesson. I hope you're comfortable and excited to get started. For this first map, we'll be creating a carefree countryside to help get you familiar with the mapmaking process. I don't want to overwhelm you with instructions before we begin, but I do want to let you know that I'll be guiding you through each step. However, don't feel pressured to draw exactly what I'm drawing. The beauty of this process is that you can let your imagination run wild. There are no rules and no right way for things to be. Let your mind wander and create your map in whatever way feels right to you. Without further ado, let's get started crafting your first map. Let's begin by creating a new Canvas. Tap the plus sign in the upper right. The Cvas size we're going to be using today is 3,800 by 2,800 pixels. If you don't already have a template save for that size, here's how you can create one. Tap this little rectangle right here in the upper right corner. Make sure you're down here under pixels, and we're going to type in 3,800 for the width and 2,800 for the height. And you can give this Canvas template a name. And then tap create. Let's start by choosing a base color. Now, you can choose any color you want for your map. I'm going to do kind of a dusty teal color. So something kind of like this, not too saturated. I'm kind of going for calm here. So that's the color that I'm going to start with. And then I'll head to my brush library and go into the Map making brush pack. We're going to start with the brush called Pathways. So we're going to create sort of a blob shape for this map. So go ahead and move your apple pencil all the way around the edges of your canvas and sort of a waby line like this until you have a completely closed shape. And then you can fill it with color drop. Once you have a base, you can start adding in some roads. We're going to go up to our layers, and we're going to tap the plus sign to create a new layer. And we are going to set this layer to be a clipping mask. So just tap this new layer that you just created. And in the menu, you can choose clipping mask, and you'll see a little arrow pointing down to the layer below. Whatever we draw on this layer will only show up within this blob shape. So that's perfect for our roads. Now, let's go into our color picker, and we're going to pick a color that's just a little bit lighter, and we're going to kind of move this direction in this color disc. So go a little bit lighter. So something like that. Can test it out. I think that's a good color. And we're going to use the same brush for our roads, this pathways brush. And now we're just going to draw some kind of meandering roads that go through the blob. And you can do really whatever you want here. I'm going to draw kind of a curving one up that way. And maybe we'll have one kind of slicing through like that. And then we can have one kind of connecting and going through, sort of like that. But you can place your roads wherever you would like. Now that we've got some roads, we can decide if we want to add some water elements like a little stream or river. And I'm going to do that on a separate layer. I'm going to go up to my layers. I'm going to tap the layer with the blob. And then I'm going to tap the plus sign. That's going to create a layer in between the two layers that we've just made. And then for my colors, I'm going to go into I'm going to go into the these cooler blues over here and just get like a nice good color for water. I think that's a good color. It's always good to test a little swatch to see if you like the color. And then I'm just going to draw kind of a wavy sort of riy line going through my map. Okay. So now that we've kind of made the lay of the land, we can start adding in some little map elements. I'm going to go into my layers. I'm going to tap the topmost layer here, and then I'm going to tap the plusin to create a new layer right above that. Now, all of my map elements are just going to be a little bit darker color than my base color. So I'm just going to sample my base color here. I'm going to go into my color picker, and I'm going to move this way in the color disc. So I'm getting just a color that's a little bit darker and more saturated. A little bit darker than that. So those elements really stand out. I think that's good. And we're going to start by drawing a few structures for our map. So to do that, we're going to go into our brushes, and we're going to choose the liner brush. It's the first one. Now we're going to go ahead and draw some houses. So go ahead and pick a spot where you want to put a house. I'm gonna zoom in to this little spot right here. And we're gonna draw these really simple, kind of like two d, three D houses. So I'm going to start by drawing kind of a long rectangle that's open on top like this. And then I'm going to draw another line that's not quite halfway, kind of off to one side. And then we're going to draw our roof line, so it's going to be a triangle like that. And then the line from the bottom of the triangle is going to go off parallel to the bottom of the house. And then it's going to come back up like that. And then I'll connect those two to form the roof. And then I can fill the roof with color drop, because I'm going to make the, my roofs dark. I'm going to thicken up that side a little bit, and then I'm going to close off this end right here like that. And there's my little house. And now that I've drawn that, I can add doors and windows and things like that. So add a little door to your house, wherever you'd like. And then maybe a couple of windows, too. I'm just kind of filling in both the doors and the windows with colors like that. So there's our first little house. Super cute, very simple. Now let's pick a spot for another house. Let's go down here kind of under the river. Maybe there's a little house over here, so let's do that again. Start by drawing a long rectangle like this, and then divide the rectangle like that. And on the smaller part, we'll add our little roof line. Draw a line parallel to the bottom that way. And then the other side of the roof in parallel with this line here, and then close it off. And then we can fill that with color. And then just kind of close off that triangle on the other side. We have our little house. Now we can add doors and windows. So maybe I'll do like my door off to the side on this one, little window next to it, and then maybe like a kind of semicircle window above that. And then a couple windows on the side of the house. And then maybe this time, we can add a little chimney. Just draw a little rectangle on top of the house and color it in. There we go. So now we've got two houses in our little map area. Let's do one more, maybe over here. You can add as many houses as you like. But this is kind of a countryside scene, so we don't need to do too many houses. You can draw them all in the same way. Draw a big rectangle, divide it. At our little roof line. Draw a line across, and then up and back. And then connect and fill it with color. And then we can add our doors and windows, Maybe our doors on this side this time. Let's add door right there. Rectangle. And a window. Then maybe two narrow windows on this side. You design your house however you like. Little circle window. You're just kind of like doing a lot of the same things, but just a little bit different. And then let's put a chimney on. You can draw your chimney as an open shape too. You don't have to color it in, it's up to you. So now we've got three little houses on our map. Let's add one more. Since this is a countryside scene, let's add a little barn. And I'm going to put that for me over here. You can put it anywhere you'd like. So if you want to draw barn, it's very similar. Again, we're going to start with our rectangle, really long, that, three sides. Then we're going to divide it this. And the barn has a little bit different roof line than a normal house. So we're going to draw two lines kind of like this. Like partial roof, and then two more lines that kind of are at, like, a little bit less of a slope to create the barn shape. And then just like with the houses, we'll draw a line back and parallel with the ground. And then we're just going to mirror these angles over on this side. So here's that angle, and then this one kind of comes in a little bit more like that, and then connect the top. Okay. We can fill that in with color drop. As. L that sit in like this. And now we get to add our doors and windows, but we get to do a barn style. So let's add a barn door on one side. So it's going to be a nice, big rectangle. We're going to divide the rectangle in half like this. And then put Xs on it. Super simple. There we go. Simple barn door, and then a little kind of barn window. Just a long rectangle kind of above the barn door. And then to make it look even more like a barn, we can add some like barn wood slats. So if you do really light pressure with this brush, you'll get a very faint line like this, and this will be perfect for showing the kind of, like, slats of the barn wood. So just add little vertical lines down your barn. And then also along the side of the barn. We have windows to your barn on the side if you want or not. It's up to you. Okay. So's your cute little barn. And why don't we go ahead and add a silo for a barn as well. So we'll have the silo kind of behind the barn a little bit. I'm going to draw a line kind of extending out from the side of the barn, and then it's going to go up for nice tall silo. And then this is going to end up being a big rectangle, sort of like that. And then it's going to have a top like that. And then we can just add some lines. Again, I'm doing a little lighter pressure, so the lines aren't quite as thick as the outline. There's our silo. O. Okay. Our little map is coming along. We're going to draw one more structure. Right over here. I think we need a windmill. So here's how we can draw a windmill. I'm going to start with a triangle shape for the roof. And then kind of a round kind of bottom to that triangle shape. And then two lines kind of coming down and out just a little bit, so it kind of tapers out. And then another curve kind of similar to this one for the bottom of the windmill. And then this is going to be like our little center point where the sails attach. And we're going to just draw some lines like that that cross. And then the sails. These are just more rectangles. And then you can color those in as well. Is a little better colored in. Or you can use color drop since they're close shapes, that makes it a little easier. There's a little windmill, maybe a little circle right there where they connect. And then our windmill can have a whatever shaped door you want to have. Color that in, maybe a little window above it. And there's a little windmill. Okay. I think we have plenty of structures for our map. Let's start adding some of the fun details like trees and grass and things like that. So let's create a new layer for all these details. Let's go ahead and tap the layers panel, and then tap the plus sign. We'll create a layer on top above everything else. We're going to stick with the same color, but now we're going to switch brushes. So let's go into our brush library. And if you scroll down, you'll find all of the fun trees and things like that. Let's start with oval trees. And now, let's just start adding in some trees. As you'll notice when you work at this brush, it kind of staggers your trees and also gives you trees of various sizes. So all you have to do is really paint a line, and then you've got some trees. So you can add in trees wherever you think you need them. Maybe a here a little bit over by my house. And maybe we need a tree for our barn. If you want to make a bigger tree, like, maybe that tree looks a little bit smaller, you can always make your brush size bigger, and you can paint in a bigger tree. Maybe there's some bigger trees down on the farm here. If you go back to where we have the brush size saved for these brushes, we'll kind of make trees that are in the same proportion as everything else. So you can always go back to that little saved brush size. Okay. Um, let's do some different trees now. Maybe we'll go to these triangle trees. Maybe along the river, we've got some of these kind of, like, triangle trees. But some above and below. Maybe above this house. There's some more of those trees. You can draw with this brush or you can tap to add individual trees. If you don't like where a tree landed, you can always, you know, erase it or use a selection tool to move it around. That's good. And then maybe we need a little bit of grass around this one. So let's go and find the tufts of grass brush. And maybe we'll just add in some grass. I'm just going to draw a few lines of grass everywhere. And I'll fill that with like a nice grassy texture. Maybe down here, near the river, there's a lot of grass. Wherever you think it needs something. Just add a little bit of grass. Maybe up here. Yeah, maybe around our little barn, to grass. Okay. Now, some other elements, I think would be fun. It's maybe a little sunflower field over here by this house. So let's go into our brushes, and I have a brush for that. It's called sunflower stamp. And this one is a stamp brush, so wherever you tap, I'll draw a little sunflower. We can make a little sunflower field over here. They've got the heads of our flowers, and then we can go ahead and grab that liner brush. And we can draw some stems, so you can make them how tall. You want to make them. I'll just draw a bunch of stems. Then we can fall in some leaves, just kind of alternating sides of the stem like this. However many leaves you want. To. Hey, I think over by our windmill, while we've got the light of brush selected. Why don't we draw on some really simple little tips? I always think of, you know, holland tips with windmill. So I'm just going to do my tulips as kind of like ovals with some kind of like long leaves kind of sticking out the side. So like oval with a stem and then some tall leaves. So add some tips to little area by the windmill. Whatever many you want. E. And then, since we have our farm over here, let's add some lines to kind of represent, like, rows of crops. So in the brush set, we've got a few different kinds of line brushes. And I think for crops, either the zigzag line or the squiggle line look really good. So I think I'm going to do the zigzag line. You can choose whichever one you want. And for this, since I kind of want them to extend from the edge of the blob to, like, underneath this road, I'm actually going to place a layer right above the blob layer. So I'm going to tap the blob, and then I'm going to tap the plus sign. And now I'm going to draw. Some lines with this zigzag brush. Kind of all in a row like that. And for this one that's kind of overlapping the silo, I'm just going to get my eraser, and I'll choose that liner brush and just erase because this would be behind the silo. L. We've got some like farm land over there. Now, let's look at our river. We haven't done anything for our river, and I want to add some fun details into that. So let's start by adding some kind of, like, waves and ripples to our river. So I'm going to tap the layer with the river. I'm gonna tap the plus sign to create a new layer. And then I'm going to select this river color. And then I'm going to go into my colors and get something that's just a little darker, more saturated. So again, going this direction in our color disc. Test that out. But I don't want to use this zig zag brush. So I have a couple of ones that will work well. I've got the squiggle lines, which will make a fun little texture in your river, or I have the scallop lines, which are kind of like little waves. So I like to do these. Just like a few like this, kind of all throughout. So however you want to represent water in your map, you do it that way. Just keep in mind when you're using this brush, you want to always go in this direction. If you go this direction, you'll get, like, upside down. It Doesn't look like waves, but it could be cool for something else. There you go that way. So now we've got some waves in our river. And how about we need a little bridge? We just have a road that's kind of like over the top of the river. So let's draw in a little bridge. I'm going to go to layer with my roads. And I'm going to grab my eraser brush. Again, I'm using the liner brush. And let's erase part of this road away, and we'll build a bridge. There we go. Something like that. I'll be a nice long bridge. Okay. And then for the bridge, let's just use the same layer with the houses, this one here. And the color is going to be the same one that we're using for all of our houses and trees and things. So this darker color. And for the brush, let's go back to our liner brush. Now we're going to just draw kind of like a big arch on both sides, the same shape on both sides and then connect. And this will be our bridge. There we go. And then we can add some little lines like planks of wood on the bridge. So let's just turn on alphac on this layer. We're going to take two fingers and swipe to the right, or you can tap on the layer and choose alphac right here. And then for the color, let's just choose a little bit lighter color than what we have now, like that. Just kind of going this way. And then just very lightly, draw some lines over your bridge. Here we go. Maybe over here, we add like a little like a way finding sign. So let's choose our darker color. So I'm just going to sample it from this windmill up here. And I still using my liner brush. And then on our layers, we still have alphaoc turned on, so that means we can't draw anything new on this unless we turn it off, so we can swipe with two fingers to the right or tap the layer and unselect alphaoc, so that there's no check. And then let's just draw kind of a line. This will be like our sign post, and we'll draw some kind of parallel lines like that. On one side, we'll draw like a triangle pointing that way with like an inverted triangle on the other side, color it in. And then we can do one that's going the other way. L. Maybe that'll help people find their way in our little imaginary countryside. Since we have kind of this grass, that's like competing with our signs. Let's go to the layer with the grass, and then we'll just erase these little bits of grass there. There we go. I can see your sign a little bit better. So now, if there's any other details that you want to add to your scene, you can. I think I'm just going to add a little bit more grass. So I'm going to go find my grass Tufts grass brush. Then I think up here, we could use some grass. There. Maybe over here. Maybe we'll put some over there. Just kind of wherever you think needs a little bit of filler. Or maybe you want to add some more trees. Maybe this house needs a big tree. So I'm going to go find those oval trees, and I'll make my brush size bigger. We can do, like a nice big tree, maybe even bigger than that. Here we go. Now we have a nice big tree for that house. And once you've decided you've added enough to your map. It's all done. I hope you enjoy drawing this first countryside map. In our next lesson, we're going to be creating some restful roads. We're going to be exploring making maps with a three color palette, creative ways to use some of these brushes, and I'm going to teach you how to create an easy, authentic print effect. I'll see you in the next lesson. 6. The Map-Making Process: H I hope you enjoyed creating your first map and found it to be a calming experience. Before we dive into our second map, let's take a moment to review the map making process that you learned through crafting your countryside scene. This process serves as a blueprint for creating any map, including the ones we'll explore in future lessons. Step one, choose a theme. Before you draw anything, you want to decide on the theme or environment of your map, and you have a myriad of options ranging from a serene countryside scene to a coastal or beach setting, majestic mountain area, the vastness of a desert, or the coziness of a neighborhood. Step two, create a background. Next, establish the backdrop for your map. This could involve creating a blob shape, like in our first map, selecting a background color, or just leaving it blank. Step three, add the roads. Set the layout of your map by drawing meandering lines across it, representing roads and pathways. Step four, water features. If desired, incorporate water features such as rivers, creeks, waterfalls, lakes, and ponds into your map. Step five. Draw buildings or structures. Next, add houses and other structures as they are often prominent features of maps. You consider including houses, cabins, barns, windmills, green houses, bridges, tunnels, shops, camp sites, and more. There are a lot of options there. Step six, natural elements. Now, introduce some natural elements to your map. Begin with large land formations, like hills and mountains, and sand dunes, and then proceed to add vegetation. Start with the larger plants such as trees, and then work your way towards smaller ones like bushes, flowers, and grass. And step seven, fun details. Finally, infuse your map with personality by adding fun details. Consider, including wayfinding signs, vehicles, storytelling elements, animals, characters, or any other creative additions that enhance the charm of your map. With these steps in mind, let's embark on our next map making adventure. 7. Map 2: Restful Roads: In this lesson, you'll be creating a road map of swords as you learn some creative ways to utilize the brushes. I'll also teach you how to create an easy, authentic print effect for a finishing touch to your map. Let's get started. Let's start this map by creating a new Canvas. Tap the plus sign in the upper right, and we're going to use the same size that we did for the previous map, so we can use our same Canvas template, that's 3,800 by 2,800 pixels. For this one, our map is going to take up the entire canvas. So let's start by choosing a color for our map elements. In the color picker, we're going to go kind of into the oranges over here. And I don't want to get something that's super dark. I want to come up just a little bit, so we have sort of this kind of, like, really muted, almost grayish brown. And then in our map making brush set, we are going to start with the pathways outline brush. Now, the cool thing to note about this brush is that as you're drawing your pathways, if you overlap something you've already drawn, it connects the paths together, which is really, really cool. And we can use that to our advantage to draw our map roads. Let's undo that. And it makes it a lot easier if you zoom out a little bit like that. So just zoom your canvas out. So we're gonna draw a couple of intersecting roads here. Again, you can draw your roads in whichever way you want. But I'm gonna start here at the top and kind of make a winding curving road like this, and then maybe go all the way down. Then I'm gonna keep my pencil on the screen. I haven't lifted it up. Then I'm gonna draw a road that kind of goes across like this. And then I'll lift my pencil up. And I'm going to draw another road that's going straight down here, and this one is actually going to be railroad tracks. So I want to make a road that's super straight. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to use the quick shape feature. So I'm going to draw my line going straight down, and when I get to the bottom, I'm going to hold my pencil on the screen like this. And then I'm not going to let go. And I'm going to take one other finger and put it on the screen. And you'll see that it will snap to a perfectly straight line. So now I have a nice straight road for my railroad tracks. And then I'm going to zoom in right here and just do a little erasing to kind of clean that up. So I'm going to go to my eraser tool, and I'm going to I'll just use a liner brush from this set for my eraser. And I'm gonna erase the horizontal lines on this road here just a little bit. Yeah. Okay. So like I said, we're going to make this a railroad. So to do that, we're going to use one of the brushes in a little bit of a creative way. Let's go into our brush set, and we're going to find the brush called crossing. Now, I made this brush to be, like, a little crosswalk that you can put on your roads like that. But since it's a bunch of horizontal lines, it also makes great railroad ties. So I'm gonna zoom my canvas out a little bit like that. And I'm going to increase the brush size to about 35-40%. And then we're going to use that same quick shape feature to draw our rio ties. So I'm going to start out here outside the canvas and then just draw line straight down like that. That's kind of wavy. I'm gonna hold my pencil down on the screen when I finish drawing my line. And you see now that it becomes. Actually, the shorter the line you make it, the closer the ties get together, so you can kind of adjust that way, but I'm going to put them where I want. And then as soon as I lift my pencil, I can also tap here where it says, edit line. Now I have these little nodes that I can manually adjust my line like that. I have a cute little railroad. And just tap anywhere to get out of that. So, now you've got a couple of roads. You've got a railroad. Let's add a water feature. I think a winding river would be nice. So let's go up to our layers and tap the plus sign to create a new layer for the river. And then let's go over to our brushes. And we're going to find the one called multi line. This is sort of like a rake style brush, and I think it's kind of a fun texture for a river. So let's zoom out again. I think anytime you're drawing, you know, something that kind of goes across the canvas, it's best to zoom it out a little bit, so you can start outside the canvas. But go and draw a winding Curvy River. You can have it cross a couple of your rows like that, and we can make those into bridges. Perfect. So let's go to our the other layer, the one that has all the roads on it, and we'll do a couple of bridges. So tap that layer, and then go to your racer tool, and we're just going to race just like we did with our country scene. Race away part of our roads, where they cross the river like this. And then let's go back to our brushes, and we will choose the liner mono. This is a mono width brush, so it's going to be the same width, no matter how much pressure you use, which is kind of how the lines of the roads are, so I thought it would be a good choice in this case. And now let's draw some little arches or a bridge over the river. There, and I'll do this one as well. And then let's go back to the river layer, and then we can race away. Part of the river, that would be under the bridge. There we go. And then once you're done racing, go back to the roads layer in your layers panel. And then you can draw some little lines on the bridge like this. There we go. Okay. Now let's add an extra little detail to our roads. We're going to go to our brushes, and we're going to find the dashed line brush. And this makes nice, like, dashed lines in the road, like you would see on a road. You can see, kind of like that. But those feel a little bit big. So let's just make the brush size a little smaller. I'm going to take it down to like 15 or 16%. And now we have a little daintier dashes. So just kind of draw a line through the middle of the roads. I'm going to stop where the roads cross right there. And then keep going. D. There we go. And then I'll do it on this road as well. Then we'll trawl down the middle here. There we go. So for this map, we're doing sort of a rural scene, so let's not worry about adding any structures. Instead, let's dive into the natural elements of this map. So let's create a new layer for these natural elements. I'm going to go to my layers and top the plus sine to create a new one. And then I'm going to go over to my brushes. And let's start off with this brush called Boulders. And this brush is great. If you draw sort of kind of, like, wavy lines, you get these really fun little kind of boulder rock formations. So you can draw a few little lines of boulders here and there. You can make the brush size a little bit bigger if you wanted bigger boulders. You also press a little heavier and you'll get bigger boulders. Got some boulders there, maybe up here above the river, a few there. Maybe over here. Just kind of wherever you think could use it in your map. Okay. That looks pretty good. And now let's dot some trees in amongst our boulders. Let's go and find the pine trees brush. Love this one. And we'll just paint in pine trees here or there. And if you wanted to make the pine trees a little bit bigger, you could always know, make your brush size a little bit bigger. Let's there. Kind of wherever you want. And let's do multiple kinds of trees. We'll also do the oval trees brush, and we'll put some over here. These boulders and maybe down here in this area. I want to do something else with this little section, so I'm kind of leaving it blank for now. But let's put some little trees over there. That looks pretty good. Maybe a couple of there. Okay. And now I mentioned I wanted to do something a little different in this section. And this is almost just for visual interest and do something else. But let's choose this squiggle line brush. And I'm just going to do some like, little stripes of that. It could be rows of crops, could be farmland. It could be it could be whatever. But I just thought it would be fun to add something else for visual interest. So draw some lines that cross over the river and the road. We're kind of making a little bit of overlap. And then we're going to erase what we don't need. I'm just going to draw lines over this whole section here. And then, once you've gone out the whole section, you can grab your eraser brush. I'm using again, the liner brush is my eraser and just erase away the parts that you don't need, and that will fill in the section fully. Now, I think maybe just a little bit of grass would be nice. So I'm gonna find that tufts of grass brush. And then just Wever it needs a little bit more. I'm gonna add some grass to make it look a little bit more. Natural and nat Maybe down here. You just a few over here and over here. You know, amongst the trees and the boulders. There we go. That's looking really nice. So now we've pretty much drawn all of our map elements. Minus a couple of other things. I'll show you in just a sec, but let's add a little bit of color to the scene now. We're going to approach color a little bit differently for this one, and we're going to create sort of a kind of, like, vintage overprint effect. So what we want to do for this effect is helpful if all of your layers are merged into a single layer. So to do that, let's go up to our layers, and we're going to select these three layers that we use to create all of this. And we could merge them all together, but I like to keep my layers separate just in case I want to go back and add something later. So instead, I'm going to select all these three layers and then I'm going to group them. And I'm just going to close that group by tapping this little carrot. And then I'm going to swipe to the right on the group and choose duplicate. And now we have two copies of the group. We're going to tap this duplicate. And in the menu, we're going to use flatten. So now we have all of the layers merged together into one layer here, but we also have our layers all separate here, just in case we wanted to go back and change something, or I always like to keep my options open when I'm working digitally. So go ahead and uncheck the group. We don't need it. We're just going to disable it for now. And the last thing we're going to do on this layer, the one that's all merged together. We're gonna tap this little n here. And then in this list of blend modes, these are blend modes. We're going to scroll up until we get to the one called multiply. Now, when we have multiply on, it's going to interact with any colors that are in the layers underneath it. So you'll get to see what that looks like in just a minute. Let's create a new layer now, so we can start adding some color, and we're going to put this layer underneath the layer that has everything all merged together. And now we're ready to start doing some color. So let's go to our brushes, and we can just use the pathways brush for this. We're going to do a lot of big chunks of color. So choose pathways. And then we're going to choose, like a grassy green. So something here in the yellow greens, not crazy, saturated again. We don't want it to be too intense and bright, so we're going to come in a little bit. Not too dark either. So something about right there, I think is good. And then we're just going to very loosely kind of color in the areas of green. And I'm leaving a lot of white space here. I really like the way that that looks. So let's do all these little sections here. You know, leave a little white. It's okay if it like, touches the roads a little bit. Let's do this one. I'm going to leave some room around. The river will be a different color. I do this little area here. And then I can actually fill that in with color drop because that's a close shape, so I can just fill that in. And then down here. Again, this is meant to be pretty loose and imperfect. It's always best when you can lean into the imperfections. I think it makes it more relaxing. Okay. Couple more areas to do. So let him with color drop, and then this one right here. Okay. So now you can see that all the white space is the color of our road ops. I forgot one right here. There we go. Okay. So now I want to add just a little bit more color to make this more interesting. Let's go to our layers, and we're going to turn on Alpha lock. So we're going to take two fingers and we're going to swipe to the right on that layer or you can tap the layer and choose Alpha lock from the menu here. And then we're going to go to our colors, and we're going to get a color that's just a little bit darker, like that. Maybe a little bit darker than that. Maybe a little bit cooler, like closer to a bluish green that way. There we go. That looks good. And then we're just going to add some like chunks of this other color. Again, this is just for, like, visual interest, so it's not just all one color green over the whole thing. I'm going to do like a section down here. It's kind of arbitrary. You know, Wherever you think it needs a little bit more, you know, variation in color, you can add some little splotches of this darker green. Maybe a little bit more over there. Yeah, looks good. And then let's also paint in our river, and that's going to go on a different layer. So we're going to tap our layers menu, tap the plus sign, and we're going to set the blend mode of this layer to multiply as well. So tap the little n, and then just slide up until you get to multiply. And let's go ahead and choose like a nice bluish color, something like that. And then we're going to paint in our river. And what I love about this is anywhere that kind of overlaps the grain a little bit, kind of has this multiply effect and makes this other color. So that's kind of fun. And then I think it would be super cute to add a few little cars on the road. So let's just go ahead and do that as well. So let's tap on our layer, the top one, the one that has like all the map elements. And then we're just going to create a new layer right above that. So tap the plus sign. And then we're going to select this color that we've been using for all the roads and everything like that. So just select that color. And let's choose our liner mono brush. So go ahead and pick a spot where you think you might want to add a car. I think I'll add one right here. I'm going to make the bar size a little bit smaller. Maybe like 10% or so. So to draw a super simple little car, we're just going to draw a line like that. Add some wheels. In the bottom. Let's go skateboard. And then we're going to draw a big bump like this. And then add, like a little kind of hood to your car, fill in the body, like that. And then draw line down the middle, and then I'll make our little windows. And then you have a super simple little car. Now, you might notice that it's kind of blending into the road a little bit. So let's go back to the layer with all the roads in the map elements, almost like that layer. And then we'll grab our eraser and we'll just kind of erase away a little bit, almost like you're outlining it in white sort of and erase anything that it's kind of like overlapping in a weird way so that you can see your little car. And now you can see it stands out a little bit better. And if you wanted to have some more cars in your scene, you could draw them again, or you could just duplicate this one. Let's go up to our layers and we'll find the layer with the car, swipe to the left and choose duplicate. And then we can grab our transform tool here, little arrow. And we can move this one. Maybe we'll put this one up here. Be driving this way. I can rotate it by grabbing this green node here, maybe it's going like that. It's coming around the bend. And then I can go back to the layer with all the roads and then just race a little bit around the edges like that. That way we can see our car really well. Yeah. Maybe I'll do one more car. Go in that way. I'm going to go back to that original layer or the one with the original car and swipe to the left, choose duplicate. Go to my transform tool. And This one, I'm gonna have it facing the other direction. So let's choose where it says down here in the tool bar. Flip horizontal. I'll have the car go the other way. And so now I'll put this one. It's going on the other side of the road there. Coming around the bend this way. And then, like before, I'll go to my layer with the roads and just serace a little bit on either side. So I can really see the car very well. There we go. And once you've done and once you're done adding your cars, I would merge all those together. So the three cars merge all three. You can do that by taking your fingers and pinching all three layers together. And then tap the little n here. And we'll set the layer to multiply like we did with all of our other layers. And you can see here I didn't quite erase enough away in the roads layers. I'll just erase that little bit. Look everywhere else looks good. I'll race that. Lots of cute little cars. Oh, and I just noticed our rivers kind of running through the bridges. And this is why it's nice to have things separated out onto different layers because 'cause I can just go over to my river color layer. And I can grab my eraser brush and just, like, erase away the part that's going under the bridge like that. There we go. All right. Well, I have one more finishing touch to show you for this map, since it already kind of has this sort of vintage feel to it. I'm gonna show you how to add an easy, authentic print effect to this map. So the first thing we need to do is we need to copy the entire canvas, and that basically is going to create a copy of all of our layers and put into one layer. So the easiest way to do that is to go up to the actions menu, add and choose copy Canvas. And then you're going to choose paste. And if you go to your layers, you'll see that now we have this layer, which is essentially a copy of all of our layers all merged together into one layer, including the background, like white color. So to do this effect, we want to make sure that this layer that just pasted in is at the very top. So we're going to tap hold and drag that to the top of the list like that. And then we're going to go to the adjustments menu. And you're going to find chromatic aberration here. And then tap over to it says displace in little tool bar. And then it helps if you zoom way in so we can really see the effect happen. But if you take your pencil and you drag it across the screen, it will separate all the colors out into the three, you know, colored primaries. But we just want to offset it just a little bit like this. Want too much. And even that is really intense, and it almost hurt your eyes. So we want to turn down the transparency here. Let's turn the transparency to about 50% or so. So you can still see it, but it's like less intense. And then zoom out. You'll see that it's already started to have sort of a kind of print effect. But there's one more thing that we're going to do to really enhance that effect. Let's go up to the adjustments menu one more time and go to noise. And then you're going to run your pencil across the screen to the left, and that will increase the noise. But we only want to increase it to about 15% or so. However much noise you think looks good to you, but I think 15% looks really nice. And there is our finished map, our restful roads with a fun little print effect. I hope you enjoy doing this design. It's a really fun one. We got to introduce a couple more colors, and I got to show you that really fun print effect. In our next lesson, we're going to be creating some imaginary islands. This is going to be a full color design as we dive deeper into mapmaking. There's going to be a little bit of storytelling, some playful elements, as we add some fun illustrated details. I'll see you in the next lesson. 8. Map 3: Imaginary Islands: In this lesson, we're going to head to the beach and dive deeper into map making. We'll be creating a vibrant full color scene as we bring imaginary islands to life. Just like with our previous map, you have the freedom to shape your islands however you want. But this time we're adding an additional layer of creativity with some storytelling elements through illustrated details. These details will enhance the charm and personality of your map, making it something truly unique. I think you'll have a lot of fun crafting your own little world and inventing the stories that unfold there. Then possibilities are as vast as the ocean, whether it's pirate adventures, hidden treasure, serene, beach resorts, let your imagination run wild. So, let's get started making some imaginary islands together. Let's begin our next map with the new Canvas. Tap the plus sign in the upper right. And we're gonna use the same 3,800 by 2,800 pixel canvas that we've been using for the other maps. And we're going to start this map off with a big blob shape for our ocean. So let's start by choosing a nice ocean color, kind of like a bluish green. Not too light, not too dark. A right there. And then for the brush, we're going to use the pathways brush. And then you'll want to draw a blob shape. Draw a wavy line around the edges of your canvas like this. And then fill it in with color drop. And now we're going to add some islands. Let's tap our layers panel and create a new layer by tapping the plus sign. And then we're going to choose a different color. So we're going to move this outer ring over into the kind of yellowish orange area here. We're going to choose a really light version of that color. It's almost white, but it's a little tan. It's going to be our sand for our island. And then you can draw some lobby island shapes kind of like this. It can be whatever shape you'd like. Fill that in with color. Then you can add another island over here. It's kind of like bean shaped. And then maybe even some smaller islands down below. However many you want. Now let's add some texture to our islands. We're going to go to our brushes, and you're going to find the brush called beans. This is kind of a fun brush that I like to use for texture, and it looks like beans, so I called it beans. We're going to choose a color that's just slightly darker and more saturated. So again, we're gonna go this direction in the disc. Just a little bit darker more saturated. You don't want it to be too different. T that color. It's very subtle, but I think it'll work really well for this. And then you're just going to trace around kind of the edge of the island, but leave a little space between the edge. So kind of like this. Just trace all the way around. When you get to the beginning, just keep going, kind of like the spiral, like fill in the entire center of your island, like this. You want to do the same for your other islands. I leave a gap along the edge and then fill in the center. And then of course, our little islands down here. The brush seems a little too big for that small island. You can always make the brush size a little smaller. This. I'll have to be perfect. It's just a little bit of texture. I'll do this one little one here. There we go. Now we'll start adding some land formation. So let's go up to our layers and we'll create a new layer. And then we'll go over to our brushes. And we're going to use this brush called boulders, create some kind of, like, hilly land formations. And for the color, we're going to choose a nice green for that. So I'm going to choose a green that's kind of a little bit of a yellowish green. But again, not too saturated. I'm going to go about right here, I think. A little cooler. Test that out. Maybe a little bit darker. Kind of see how you're liking the colors. I think that looks good. And then we're just going to draw some hills across our island like that. However many hills you think you want. Just add a few lines here and there, kind of fill in and some hills on this smaller island here. And then even on the tiny ones. Now let's add some trees to our island. Of course, we're going to want to add some palm trees. So go ahead and create a new layer for those. Just like to keep everything separate onto separate layers. To the plus side. And let's go over to our brushes. Now, there's a few different palm tree brushes. I have this one that's just called palm trees, and that's like a full palm tree like that. And then I also have palm tree brushes that are separated out by trunks and the palm fronds. So you can actually do the trunks and the palm fronds as different colors. So let's choose the palm trunks brush. And then for a color, I'm going to go over to orange. Choose kind of like a know rusty orange color, something like that. And we'll use that to draw some palm trees. So I'm just going to kind of trace along my beach and at a bunch of palm trees like that. And then I'll add some to this island as well. And maybe some peppered in my hills over here. And, of course, on my little islands as well. Alright, got a whole bunch of trunks, and we're ready to add some palm fronds. So let's go and find the palm fronds stamp brush. And this is meant to be tapped instead of kind of drawing a line of trees like we have been. This is a stamp brush that we're meant to tap, tap, tap it into place. So let's go over to these palm trunks over here. And I'm just going to select this green color that I've been using for these hills. And I'm just going to tap right on the tip of my tree trunk like this. That's going to add some palm fronds that. You can also turn your canvas a little bit so that the tip of the palm trees facing the top of the iPad. And that will make your palm fronds turn that way a little bit. So like on this one here, if I turned it this way, so that's pointing up, a little palm frond. I think I'm going to do a couple of different colors for these palm trees for variety. So I'm just going to do some of them in this green color. And then I'm gonna do a different green. And if your fronds are coming out too big, you can always scale your brush size down a little bit. Make them a bit smaller. That one there. See, that's too small. Make a bit bigger. And a few of these here. Maybe that one. Maybe make them a brush smaller for these. Okay. So Jon a bunch in this kind of lighter green. Now I'm going to choose a darker green to do some of them just for variety. So I'm going to go to my colors and let's choose a color that's a little darker and maybe even a little cooler, so closer to the blues like that. Test that out. I think that colors pretty good. Ale bar. Okay. So we will go ahead and fill in the rest of your palm trees. Looking good. Still in all the rest. Make that a little bit bigger. Staff on dotting these palm trees. Okay. I think we've got them all. Now, maybe we want to add an extra water element to this scene. Maybe a little lagoon in this little spot right here. So maybe I'll reuse the same layer, the one that has the hills for this. I'm going to sample the water color that I have. And then I'm just going to go to color. This is a little bit, more saturated this way. And I can use the liner brush to draw my lagoon. So I'm just going to kind of draw a shape like this. A little pond or a lagoon. And then I can add a little bit of water detail to this one with the scallop line brush. I'll just get a color that's a little bit lighter. And then maybe scale my brush size down just a little bit. That's a little bit too big, still, 8%. And then draw some little lines to show that this is water. Like that. And now, let's add some extra illustrated elements to kind of build this world. So I think it'd be fun to add a little volcano to our island. So maybe right in this little area here. Let's make a layer that's in between the island and this layer with the hills. So right there. And let's sample this dark green color, and we're going to use that to draw our volcano. And for the brush, let's go back to that liner brush to draw this. So we can make the volcanoes kind of coming out from behind some of these hills like this. Make a shape clothe shape, and then you can fill it in with color drop. And then on top of that, we want some lava coming out of this. So we can start by sampling this brown color here, and then maybe just get a color that's a little more redder. Like lava. I don't want to go full red because I want to kind of keep a muted color palette. And then we can have some lava kind of spilling out like this downside. Color that in. Here we go. And then we can even have some kind of sputtering out the top. And we can use one of our fun brushes for that, like, maybe the dashed line. Brush will be good for this. Make it a lot smaller, though. Let's go to, like, 8%. Yeah, I think that's good. And we'll just draw some lines kind of curving out. There's lava kind of exploding out of this volcano, like that. Now, let's think about our ocean because things are looking pretty plain out here. And some fun illustrated elements that you can add to your map are things like fish and whales and an octopus or sailboat. So let's add some of those elements here. So I'm going to put a little whale down in the corner. I'm going to sample our ocean color. And then I'm going to get a color. It's a little more a cooler blue, so kind of going this way. And then just like a little bit darker, like that. That's a good color, but not the right brush. So let's go ahead and choose that liner brush again. And we'll draw a cute little whale down here. So we'll start with kind of like a roundish rectangle like that. Get filled out in color drop. And then we'll draw a tail kind of curving out from the back, and then coming back in. So it's kind of a sort of a tapered shape for the curves like that. There we go. And then we'll add a little fins to the back. There's a little whale body. And we don't need a lot of details to make this look like a whale. But let's go ahead and turn on Alpha lock. So swipe with two fingers to the right. And then we're going to get a color that's a little bit lighter like that. And then draw a line across the belly like that. And then you can get black, and draw a little eye. And then turn off alphack, so take two fingers and swipe to the right again. And we'll draw in some kind of, like, a little spout. I'll start by sampling this blue whale color, and then just get a color that's like much lighter than that. Well, even lighter than that. Maybe I'll go a little warmer, don't we? Yeah, that color looks good. And then just draw of a little curly line coming out of the whale like that. And I think I'm going to get my eraser and just kind of around off that corner of my whale. There we go. I've got a cute little whale. Now, let's add some other sea creatures. Maybe over here, we've got a little octopus. Let's sample our blue whale color. Lease the same color to do some octopus tentacles. So these are pretty easy. You just kind of draw some S curves that kind of twirl around at the end, and just make them thicker, like that. Know. There's one, and then maybe we'll have another one kind of going off this way. Like that. And then we have one more going the other way like a big curve around like that. And then we'll add a little wave to kind of have it like coming out of something. But we'll come back to that in a minute. And over here, why don't we add a cute little sailboat in the same color? So let's just draw a line across like that. And then the front of the sailboat will here. We'll kind of make it pointy like this. And then connect it at the back. And fill that in. And then we'll add our sales. And it's fun sometimes to make some elements pop out of the kind of like background blob. I'm going to make the sales kind of pop out over the top. S draw front sails, a little triangle like that, and then the back sail. Then we can fill those in with color drop. Then we can grab white. We can just actually sample our background to get white and then draw the mast. That's what it's called. And then maybe sample our ocean blue. Get a version that's a little bit darker that little ale stripe to the boat. Super simple. I feel looks good. Okay. While we're focusing on our ocean, let's start to add some like wave textures to it. So let's create a new layer for this. I'm going to tap the plus sign in the layers panel. And let's sample our ocean color. And we're going to choose a color that is just a little darker and more saturated. I think that'll be good. Do a little swatch. And let's look at our brushes that might work well for water. So we've got, of course, the scallop lines, but we also have this wave line brush, which is really fun, and I feel like that feels really appropriate for an ocean. So let's just draw some lines of that kind of here or there. Just a few lines. I'm going to do a mix of these darker waves and then some lighter waves. So I'll leave some space. That looks good. So now, I'm going to get a lighter color. Again, I'm going to sample that base color of the ocean and get a color that's much lighter. Looks good. And then add a few little rows of these lighter waves. All throughout the ocean. Don't forget about our octopus friend down there. Let's actually go ahead and choose our scallop line brush. And I'm going to choose this darker wave color. I'll just sample that. And then I'm gonna draw a line. Let's make the brush is a little bier. I'm going to go back to that saved brush size. Then draw kind of a line of waves that The octopus is out of that. Okay. I'm kind of thinking now, since this is feeling a little bit like maybe a pirates map or treasure map, might be fun to add an element like that to our scene here and add even more storytelling. So let's go ahead and create a new layer. And I'm putting this one right below the layer with the hills. I think that might be a good spot for it. So I'm putting a new layer there, and we're going to add kind of a little trail. And maybe this leads to a treasure or something like that. So I'm going to choose the dashed line brush. And I'm going to sample the kind of brownish color I already have. But I think it might be a little too light, so I'm going to get darker version of that. So something like that, like a nice dark brown. And size of the brush, lets see, I'm at, let's do like 10%. I think that'll be a good scale. And then draw sort of a little line that kind of meanders. It can go through your hills, it can go back and forth. It comes over here, and then it kind of ends over there, and maybe that's where X marks the spot. And we can draw a little x right there. So for the x, I'm going to do kind of like a reddish orange color like that. And then I'll use the liner mono fresh and draw. That's probably too big. Let's go smaller. Okay, like a 6%, five or 6%. I'm going to draw a big X like that. Let's do seven or 8%. And then draw a big X. A little bit bigger than you want it because you're going to take the eraser and just erase away these kind of rounded ends to get more of a x. That's kind of, like, more I don't know rectangular, like that. And another thing that I think might be nice for this map. Maybe some little fishes in the water, and I have a brush for that. So all the way down at the bottom, we have a brush called fish. I'm going to choose a fish brush, and let's choose this kind of like darker wave color for the fish. And then just paint some little schools of fish by drawing lines kind of across little areas of your map. Now, the fish will always be facing this direction. So if you wanted your fish to go the other way, just turn your canvas over and then just paint more fish, and they'll we go in the other direction. So go ahead and add as many fish as you would like. More here. Now, this map scene is looking very nice and full. I think one last nice finishing touch would be to add a little bit more of the kind of, like, weathered texture that we see in the hills and some of these brushes. Since we have like our ocean background, it's a solid color because we just filled it in with color drop. But I have a brush that can help us add some of that weathered texture. So if you go into and I like to do this with the eraser tool, so go into your eraser tool and find the brush called gritty texture and choose that for your racer. Then go to your layers and let's choose the layer with the ocean. So I have this big blue blob at the bottom. And then you're just going to kind of lightly paint over or ase over areas of this blob just to kind of give it some weathered texture. You don't need a ton of pressure, and you don't need to do too much of it, just a little bit kind of here or there like that. Especially like maybe along the edges. There we go. That looks good. And then anything else that you think needs a little bit of this kind of, like, gritty texture. You can do a little erasing on those. So maybe the layer with the sea creatures in the volcano, choose that layer and then just kind of erase a little bit away from those. So just kind of lightly go over the sailboat and the whale and the volcano and all these little elements. And then even if you think your hills need a little bit more texture, you can erase a little bit away from some of them too. Now, I think this map is all done. If you wanted to add that, you know, print effect that we added to the last map, the one with the Roads, we could do that. Again, you just have to copy the Canvas. I showed you one way to do it, but here's another way. You can take three fingers and swipe down to bring up the copy paste menu. You could choose copy all, and then swipe down again and choose paste. And that will paste all of your layers merged into one. And then again, you want to make sure you put it at the top of your layers list. Go to your adjustments menu, chromatic aberration, displace. Zoom in a little bit, and then just offset the layers a little bit like that, and turn the transparency up to about 50%. Something like that. And then go to your adjustments menu again and choose noise. Set that to about 15%. I think this effect looks especially nice with this map. It feels like it could have been printed in like a children's book or something like that. And there's all these fun little storytelling elements to it. We've got our sea creatures, and then we've got maybe a little pirate that had come through here, and maybe they were hanging out at the lagoon. So I think it's a fun one, and you could really get carried away and add lots of fun little details to a map like this. So I hope you had fun with this one making up your own little island worlds. In our next lesson, we're going to be drawing some dreamy deserts. And in this lesson, I'm going to introduce you into ways that you can create your own map making brushes. I'll see you in the next lesson. 9. Map 4: Dreamy Deserts: Let's turn up the heat and head to the desert for our next map making adventure. Get ready to make a map filled with Sandy Dune, cacti, adorable adobe houses, and endless horizons. The highlight of this lesson is something really special. I'll be teaching you how to create your own custom mapmaking brushes. These brushes will help you add unique illustrated details to your maps, making them truly one of a kind. Before we start, make sure you've imported the customizer brush set into procreate, which is included in the class download. This set contains six brushes, five customizable brush templates, and one drawing brush, which I call the chunk brush. This is the brush that I use to draw all the map elements of my brushes, and I'm giving it to you so that the brushes you make can match the look and feel of mine. Once you learn how to make custom brushes, the possibilities are literally endless. I cannot wait to see how your creativity blossoms in this lesson. So if you're ready to draw some dreamy desert maps, let's get started. Let's begin our map with a new Canvas. Tap the plus sin in the upper right. And this time we're going to do a vertically oriented map. So let's create a new Canvas template for that. Tap this little rectangle here. And for this vertically oriented canvas, we're going to do one that is 2,800 by 3,500 pixels. And I like this size for vertical canvases, mostly because Instagram won't crop it if you decide to post it there. So give it a name. And tap create. Let's kick this map off with a little color. We'll go into our layers and tap background color. And we're going to go into the kind of, like, orangey red cues over here. And then we're just going to choose kind of a light sort of Bejish color, something like that. And then we'll start by drawing some roads. And for the roads, let's go into our color picker, and we're going to go into kind of, like, orange yellow and choose a really light, kind of creamy color. Very, very light. Work good for this. And then we'll go into our brushes and we'll choose the pathway brush for our roads. And so far, we've been drawing these really thick roads. But for this map, I thought we'd try doing some thinner roads. So let's take the brush size down to about 15% or so. So they'll be about that thick. And then zoom out your canvas a little bit and draw some roads that kind of curve around and go through your canvas like that. And then maybe we'll have one that kind of goes across and down. And then we can even have one that kind of comes down and connects to another road. They don't have to always go all the way through. Okay, we've got some roads. Let's go on to the next step, which be to add some structures. And for this desert map, I thought we could do some fun little adobe houses. So let's go up to our layers, and we'll tap the plus sign to create a new layer. And then for our brush, we're going to choose the liner mono brush to draw these adobe houses. We'll stick with the same color that we've got. And let's start in this kind of like open area. You can put your houses wherever you'd like. So these adobe houses are so simple, you're just going to draw a rectangle like this. And then we're going to have another rectangle that kind of stacked on top of that. And then you can fill those with color drop. Then we'll do another little adope house over here. That's maybe just a rectangle like that. And then maybe one over here that's more like long and skinny. So a long rectangle with another rectangle stacked on top, and then fill those in. And then if you think you want to put another house, maybe we'll do one over here. So let's draw a big rectangle. And then maybe we have a little rectangle kind of jutting off the side like that, and then fill those in. Okay. I think that's pretty good. Now let's add some doors and windows to these houses. We're going to do that using a clicking mask. So go to your layers, tap the plus sign to create a new layer, and then tap this new layer and choose clipping mask from the menu. And then let's go over to our colors and. We're going to choose kind of We're going to choose blue. I'm going to choose kind of, like a dusty navy color. So something like that. And then we'll zoom on in and can add a door. Maybe an arch door over here, a big window. Do. And then on these adobe houses, one thing that's really characteristic is the beams that kind of jut out of the front of house. So that's what these little dots are. And let's do this little house over here. Maybe I'll do, maybe I'll do a little rectangular door. And then the arched window. And then our little beams going across the top. And then we'll do this little house over here, we'll do, like an arch door. We'll do a couple windows, maybe a couple windows over here, and then our beams. Yeah. We got a few little adobe houses over there, super simple. We got one more down here, so you can add doors and windows, however you'd like. We do a arch door and an arch window. And then maybe a couple of windows over here in this little section. Then our beams. Okay. Al right. Let's add some land formations now. Let's create a new layer. We're going to go to our brushes and choose our trusty boulders brush. And then for the color, let's sample our background color and then choose a color that's a little darker than that. Maybe even a little more yellow. I try that color out. I really like that. And then add a few holders here and there. And I'm actually going to do two different colors of the boulders. So I'm going to go to my colors now and I'm going to go over to the yellows a little bit more like that, and choose kind of, like an olive sort of color. Something like this, maybe a little lighter than that. That looks good. And then add some these olive colored boulders throughout. C. And now let's add some plants. Let's create a new layer for that to the plus sign. And then over in our brushes, we've got a few desert type brushes. We've got a couple of cctive, we've got the saguaro, and then we've got some prickly pear. Let's Let's choose a saguaro. And then for the color, I'm gonna choose a color that's a little bit darker than this green I'm Already using or this kind of olive color. So I'm gonna go a little bit darker. And then I'm gonna also go even closer towards the greens this way. I try that out. I a little darker than that. A little greener. Yeah, I want it to look good against that kind of, like, yellowish color. All right. And then you can just add some cacti, wherever you want. W here and there. Save some room because we have a few different kinds of cacti that we can do. I think that looks good. And let's try our prickly pair cacti. Maybe we'll go even darker. Greener for these guys, and just add a few of those here and there. Now, there's lots of things that you could do in your desert scene, and maybe you want to go beyond, you know, the brushes that I have supplied here. And that is why I've given you a special set that comes with your download called the Map customizer. And in this set, we've got a few different types of brushes. We've got a couple scatter brushes, a couple stamp brushes, a line brush, and then this chunk brush. And you can use these to create your own brushes. So I'm going to show you how to do that next. Let's go back out to the gallery view. And let's create a new Canvas. We're going to tap the plus sign. And this time we want to create a square canvas. So we're just going to create a new Canvas template that is 3,000 by 3,000 square. And I'll just call this 3,000 square. And create. I'm going to use this Canvas to draw some stuff for our custom brushes. The first thing I'd like to do when I'm drawing shapes for brushes is to go into the actions menu, Canvas and turn on the drawing guide. And then I go into edit drawing guide. And here on this grid size slider, I just turn that up so that I can kind of just see about that much. I just want to see these kind of like cross hairs in the middle so I can know where the middle is. And then tap done. So here in the map customizer set, we're going to select the chunk brush. This is what you're going to use to draw all of your little drawings, whatever you want to make into a brush. And then for the color, we're just going to choose black. And then the other thing that I like to do if I'm going to be drawing a lot of different shapes for brushes, I'll go back to the Actions menu and turn on page assist down here. And you'll see why in a second. It'll make it so that we can kind of see each brush individually without having to turn layers on and off. So now, in the map customizer set, we're going to choose the chunk brush, and this is the brush you use to draw whatever you want to make into a brush. So, for example, I'm ing out a little bit. If you wanted to do, like, a different kind of cactus, like, those kind with, like, the oblong sections that kind of are connected together like this. I don't know what they're called. But when you're making brushes, you want to have, like, bold, chunky shapes, especially when you're making these mount brushes because they'll look really small when you stamp them on. So you don't want anything too fine or delicate. Big chunky shapes work really well. So there's a fun little cactus, and then you're going to go into the brushes. And so there's a few different kinds here. We have our scatter brush, which is like what we use for like the fish and the trees and things like that. And when you use this brush, I'll show you, all the stamps go in the same direction. Well Zoom in, you can see that. And then we have the scatter brush flip flop, which they'll change direction kind of randomly. Sometimes they'll point that way, sometimes they'll point that way. So if you wanted it to have a little bit more variety, you could do that one. And then we have a stamp brush, which is meant to stamp like that. And then we have the stamp brush randomize, which this will change direction every time you stamp it. So depending on how much control you want over the shape, whether you want to be randomized or not, you can decide which brush to customize. And then, of course, we have the line brush, who wanted to make your own kind of lines and add different shapes in. You could do that one. Let me get rid of all that. So, let's say for this cactus, I want to do the scatter brush flip flop. So the first thing that I'm going to do is I'm going to copy this canvas. So I'm going to take three fingers and swipe down to pull up the copy paste menu, and I'm gonna choose Copy All. You want to make sure it's copy all. And then you're going to go up to your brushes, and you're going to want to duplicate whatever brush you want to use. That way, you always have the original. So let's choose the scatter brush flip flop. I want it to be going different directions each time it's stamped across. So I'm going to take this scatter brush flip flop, swipe to the left and choose duplicate. And I'm going to open this duplicate. And you'll go to the shape tab. Top edit, top import, and then top paste. And there you can see our little cap di top done. And there's a preview of your brush, and you can test it out and see if you like it. It's cute. And then I would always go over to about this brush and give your brush a descriptive name. You can delete the name that I've given it. You can call it, you know, Cactus two or, you know, some other good descriptive name, whatever you want to call it. And then tab D. So we have that brush, and you can try it out right there. So we could go back to our scene and start using that brush, but I that may be fun to do a few more brushes. So if you're ready to draw something new to make into a brush, just tap new page here. And now you've got a new page to start working. So let's go back to that chunk brush, and I think it might be fun to do some flowers that we can add to our cactus, like desert blooms. So I'm going to draw kind of a It's almost like a tulip shape, so, like, a big U, and then kind of, like, you know, pointed sides, and then I'll do one in the middle. So we've got kind of like a three pointed flower. And then we'll fill that in colored in. It's really textured brush, though. You might not want to use color drop to fill this in. There you go. So there's a brush. And then maybe we'll do one other flower. I'll tap new page. And for this one, I'm going to do kind of, like, an oval like this, and then little petals that kind of go around. Something like that. Color it in. I'm going to leave the middle. Open, and add some details into that. So make my brush a little smaller and just do some, like, big dots. In the middle. Something like that. So that can be a brush. And maybe I'll do one more. I think it might be nice to have, like a tumble weed. So let's tap a new page and then do, like, a tumble weed. So tumble weeds, kind of, like, round, lots of, like, little twiggy branches, I guess. I'm sticking out like this. Make the brush a little smaller. Okay. If that works for a tumble weed. So now let's start making these shapes into brushes. So let's go back to our first flower. I'm going to swipe down with three fingers, choose copy all. And then for this one, I'm going to do a stamp brush, not the randomized one, but the other one because I want it to be the same orientation every time. So I'm going to duplicate the stamp brush, swipe to the left and choose duplicate. Then open it up. Go over to the shape tab, choose edit, import and paste. And then tap done. And there we have our little tulip brush. It could be a tulip. It could be a desert flower. But I'm gonna call it tulip stamp. And then tap done. And then I'm going to do this other flower in the same way. It'll be another stamp brush. So swipe down with three fingers, choose copy all from the menu. Go brushes, duplicate this stamp brush. And then we're going to open it up. Go to the shaped tab, go to edit, import, and then paste. And then tap done. And then we can name this one. Maybe I'll just call it desert flower stamp. If it's a stamp brush, I like to use stamp in the title, and then tap done. And then we have our tumble weed, so I'm going to copy that. Swipe down with three fingers, choose, copy all. And then go over to our brushes. And for this one, I want it to be very randomized, and I want it to kind of, like, rotate as it does a different stamp. So I'm going to choose the stamp brush randomize. Duplicate that, swipe to the left, choose duplicate. Go over to the shape tab, go to edit, import and paste. And then tab done. And we're going to go to about this brush, and we're going to call it tumble weed. Tumble weed. Stamp. D. Alright, so we've got a few different brushes that we just made. Let's head back over to our map, and we can use them. On tap gallery, and then open our map back up. So let's make sure we're on the layer with all our cacti, and we'll use our new cactus brush, cactus two, very creative name. I'm going to sample this darker cactus color that I have here. And I'm going to get a color that's even darker, like this. I think that's good. And then I'm going to increase the brush size. Maybe a little bit bigger. I want these to be kind of big. I like that. So add a few of those here and there, wherever you would like. And then maybe let's also add in our flowers. So let's start with this tip stamp. And for my color, I'm going to do like a dy kind of rose color. So over here kind of like a warm pink, bit dusty like this. Let's test it out, see how that color looks. Maybe a little lighter. Okay. Okay, I think that color is good. So I'm going to reduce the brush size of this a little bit because I want to draw little tiny flowers atop. Some of these cacti. We go on that one. Over there. Im to do all of them, but however many you want. And then maybe we can even draw some little flowers kind of in front of our toby house. Why not? Who knows what they are in real life? They're just like pink bushes or something. That looks good. We can also do our desert flower stamp and reduce the brush size a bit. Stamp that on top of these bigger. Smaller. Do that incorporate some additional color. That's nice. There you go. And let's add a few of those tumble weeds in, so I'm going to go to the tumble weed stamp. And for the color, I'm going to sample my background, and then I'm going to choose, like a kind of dark darker version of that, like brownish, something like that. I'm going to make my brush size a little smaller. That's probably a little bit too dark. And then you could draw some tumble weeds kind of tumbling through and you can see because of the randomizer kind of changes rotation every time you stamp it, which is nice. So we've got some tumbleweeds tumbling through. Let's add a few more details. Back in the map making brush. Let's choose this spiky brush, and I'm going to choose this kind of olive color that I already have, but maybe do a variation on it. Little lighter, and just pepper in some little spiky plants. The desert is very full. Quite lush now, all these plants. Looks nice. And then one last thing that I like to do is add a little bit of background texture. So let's create a layer, a new layer, and we're going to move this down under all the other layers. Look at that. And we're going to go over to our brushes, and we use our beans brush to add a little texture to the background. So I'm going to sample the background color. And then I'm going to get a color that's ever so slightly darker. No. And then just kind of draw in some areas where it's a little bit more textured. You can kind of add these wherever you want. Just kind of doing some, like, little round shapes like that. Maybe one more right there. Just give some visual interest to your map. And then one more thing that I thought would be a little fun is to add a bit of pizzas to these roads. So let's tap on the layer with the roads, and we're going to tap the plus sign to create a new layer, and we're going to make this one a clipping mask. So tap the layer and choose clipping mask from the menu. And then head over to your brushes, and let's choose one of these fun line brushes. I'm going to use the zigzag line. And then for the color, I'm just going to sample my kind of cream color I have for the roads. I get a color that's just a little darker like that. And then just kind of trace over the roads. Which I'll add a little bit of zigzag to them, which I just think is kind of fun for this desert map. And if you don't quite line it up perfectly, this is where liquefy can come in really handy. You can go up to the adjustments menu, liquefy, and choose the push option. And then you can kind of just push them into place so that they're kind of more if you want. I'll have to be. There you go. And there you have our finished desert map. I think this one is so cute. And as you can see, when you start getting into creating your own custom brushes, you can make whatever elements you want for your maps, and the sky is really the limit. So I can't wait to see what kind of brushes you make using those customizer brushes. 10. Bonus! Map 5: Tranquil Trails: I have something special for you, a little bonus lesson for this class. In this video, we're going to be heading to the mountains to draw a sweet little trail map. Let's create a new canvas, tap the plus sign in the upper right. We're going to do a horizontal map. So I'm going to use my template that is 3,800 by 2,800 pixels. We're going to keep things really simple for this map and just do a one color design. Let's start by setting the background color of our map. Tap into the layers panel and tap background color. And we're going to choose a nice light creamy color. And the outer ring, select kind of a yellowish orangish color, and then move the inner little dot just over into just kind of like that way a little bit so that you get like a nice light creamy color. You're really not moving it too far away from white. And then for all the map elements, we're going to choose a nice brown color. So tap into the color picker and move the outer ring into the kind of orange yellow. And then we're going to go somewhere over here, kind of like a grayish brown color. You can always do a little test to see if you like the color, but I think that will work nicely. Let's start by adding some roads to our map. Go into your brushes, and we're going to choose the pathways outline brush. And then zoom out your canvas a bit. This will make it easier to make sure the roads are going all the way across the Canvas. And we're going to draw a few roads, but we're going to do them in one continuous stroke so that way they will intersect with this brush. So I'm going to start over here and kind of draw a road this way, maybe it curves down. Then I still have my pencil on the screen. I'm going to come back up and maybe curve around this way and come over this way, and maybe one more time all the way across. There we go. So I did that with one continuous stroke, and you'll notice that when I do that, all of the roads intersect. Next, we're going to add our water feature. I think it would be nice to have a cute little lake or pond in this map. So let's go up to our brushes, and we're going to select the liner mono brush. And then pick an open spot and we'll use this brush to draw kind of this like organic shape, which will be our pond. And let's add a little bit of texture to the water. In the brushes, we're going to choose the scallop line brush really nicely for water. Then use that brush to draw a few lines to create some water texture. And the next step in the process is to add in any buildings you might want. And for this map, I thought it would be fun to draw a little log cabin. And I think this little area right here would be perfect for that. So this spot on your map, and we'll draw a cabin. Let's go back to the brushes, and we're going to go back to the liner brush to draw our little cabin. And we're going to draw the front of the cabin by drawing a few stacked circles like this. These are kind of like the ends of the logs. So we're going to draw four there, and then four over here. And then we're going to connect. And then we're going to draw the side of the cabin by drawing a line coming off the bottom of this circle. And then we're going to draw one, two, three, four little scallops, kind of going up that way. And then connect. And now, we'll add a roof, so we'll draw a triangle here. And a line going back, kind of like we did when we drew our houses in our other maps, and then finish off the roof. And you can fill that in with color drop, color it in as needed. Go. Just add a few more lines to give it that log cabin look, and now we can add some doors and windows, so I'm going to add a door here. My little cabin. And then a couple of windows on the side. I think this little cabin could use a chimney. So just add a really simple chimney. Okay good. So we've got our cute cabin there, and I think this map could use a little camp site as well. So find a spot. I think over here looks good for me. And we'll go into the brushes and find the brush called tents. Got a little tent brush for you. And then you can use this brush to either tap in your tents or you can just draw, add a few tents like that. Now, let's add a few trees, of coe to this map.Gt a few different kinds of trees. I'm going to start with the triangle trees. And I'll zoom over here and just kind of add a few trees over there. A few trees up here. So I'm over by my cabin. Few over there, but I think I'm going to switch to different style of tree now. With this pine trees brush. I love this one. Let's add in a few pine trees. L be here around the camp site. If you ever want to do, really big tree, you can always increase the brush size. We do a really large tree. We do a few of these. Really big. And then maybe down here, you can do a different kind of tree. We have these oval trees. We can do kind of a little grove, those down there. It's looking pretty good. So now it's time to turn this map into a trail map by adding a trail. Let's go into bushes and choose the dashed line brush. And then we're going to put this trail on its own layer. So let's go over to our layers. Tap the plus sign to create a new layer, and then zoom out a little bit. And you can put your trail wherever you want on your map. Just kind of have it mender around. This part's pretty fun. I'm gonna have mine start up here off the edge of the canvas. Oh, kind of go around these trees, go through the campground. Across the road, and then past a little cabin. Then we can do a loop around the lake. It's always a nice hike. C then maybe finish off by going down this way. And now where it crosses the road, we're going to a little crosswalks. So that's why we put it on its own layer. Now we can get the eraser brush, and you can use the liner brush as your eraser. And anywhere that it crosses the road, just erase, like that. Because it's on its own layer, it's not going to mess up our roads or anything else. We're racing. And then we're going to grab our little crossing brush, this one here, and add some little kind of crosswalks. Make that. Here. And then right here. And then if you want to add anything else, like, maybe some little signs or markers or things like that. Maybe we can put in a little way finding sign here, draw a thick line, and then two little vives, and then connect the tops. Yeah. And maybe we put one down here. And then another fun map element that you can add, if you have room is a little compass rose. I have this little space down here, so maybe we can add that. Just going to do a really simple version. I'm gonna draw two lines that intersect like this. And then two shorter lines that intersect. And then the long line and the short line. And then we're going to color in every other section. So I'll color in this section. Skip that one. Color in this one, ski. Do that one. That. And then finally. And then you can add in your directions just north south east and west. And our final little touch for this map would be to add just a little bit more vegetation by adding some grass. So let's go to our brushes, am fy our tufts of grass, brush. No one. And just da in, grass, kind of fill everything else in. Make this seem like nice lush foresty area. D. D, And there you have it, our sweet little trail map. Hope you could imagine yourself hiking through the woods as you made this one. Be sure to share your trail map in your class project. I cannot wait to see it. Happy map making 11. On Your Own: Congratulations on completing all the lessons in this class. You now have the skills to repeat this map making process anytime you want. Encourage you to create your own maps, get creative, and explore new ideas. Let's quickly review the map making process. Step one, choose a theme. Decide on the type of map you want to create. It could be a countryside, a desert, a city, or anything else that inspires you. Step two, set the stage for your map by creating a background. This could be a simple color, a textured base, or an abstract shape that represents your environment. Step three, outline the main pathways, roads, or trails that traverse your map. These can be winding paths, straight highways, or anything in between. Step four, incorporate bodies of water like rivers, lakes, ponds, or water falls. These elements add depth and variety to your map. Step five, Add houses, cabins, barns, windmill, shops, or any other structures that fit your theme. These elements help populate your map and make it more interesting. Step six. Introduce natural features such as trees, hills, mountains, and vegetation. Start with larger elements, then add smaller details like flowers, bushes, and grass. Step seven, finally, add any extra details that bring your map to life. This could include way finding signs, vehicles, characters, animals, and any other storytelling elements that enhance the charm and personality of your map. Now, on your own, make a map. Follow these steps and let your imagination flow. Don't be afraid to experiment and try new things. If you haven't already, be sure to share your work by posting a class project. On the Skillshare class page under the Projects and Resources tab, click the Submit Project button. This is where you can showcase the maps that you've created by following along in the lessons, as well as your original maps. And please also take a moment to write about your creative journey. You can describe any relaxation techniques that you used and how you approach the project. I'm so excited to see your amazing map. Let's continue to inspire each other and keep the creativity flowing. 12. Conclusion: Congratulations on completing Imaginative mapmaking in Procreate. I'm so proud of the creativity and dedication you've shown throughout our journey together. By now, you've learned how to create a variety of maps from serene countrysides to dreamy deserts and lots of stuff in between, and you've got the skills to create your own procreate brushes for mapmaking. You've also explored techniques to enhance your map with unique illustrated details. Remember, mapmaking is not just about the final product, it's about the journey, relaxing and letting your imagination run wild. Whenever you're feeling stressed or uninspired, you now have a creative outlet to help you unwind and rejuvenate. And you have the tools and techniques to create beautiful maps whenever inspiration strikes. I hope this course has been both a relaxing and enriching experience for you. I encourage you to keep practicing, experimenting, and exploring new ideas. And don't forget to share your wonderful creations with our community. Your work can inspire others just as much as it reflects your own personal growth and creativity. Thank you for joining me in this artistic adventure. I can't wait to see the amazing maps you make in the future. Keep creating, keep exploring, and most importantly, keep having fun with your art. Until next time, have you mapmaking and take care.