Adventures in Thorpe Park.

This illustration below is the most recent version of the Thorpe Park Map.  Every year since the artwork was first commissioned new rides and features are added on site and the map needs to be altered to that visitors can plan their day.  It features on the Thorpe Park website, printed large scale on billboards in the park and a handy fold out version to fit your pocket.

With an illustration like this its almost a work in progress due to the changes at the site, when a new ride is added  it is heavily themed, for example  The Swarm ride is set around an alien invasion complete with devastation and themed ride car styled to look like an outer space fighter craft. Another themed ride is Saw, based on the Saw movie series and has a horror vibe with blood, guts and gore.

The illustration itself is drawn to work at the large A0 scale and for smaller print and web sizes.  All the features are drawn individually and placed on separate layers of which there about a hundred or so.  That's many different components, all very handy if you need to change, remove and replace things. 

Map artworks are very fun to do and some can be more challenging than others to get right recently I've illustrated a Highland Park map and over the years map artworks for Universities, Country Homes and Educational resources.
The artwork is vectored and shown here in context Design by LMC

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Thorpe Park Map 2013, Dylan Gibson Illustration

Going Wild

A new map illustration for the Highland Wildlife Park showing some of the park's more popular residents.  Designed to help you to  where the animals live though it will also come in handy if you get lost or need a coffee at the shop then after the toilet. 

Its well worth the visit too, the animals have a good deal of room the park also does very good conservation work and breeding of its rare species.

My illustrations of the animals including the beautiful Amur Tigers they have at the park frame the map in a decorative boarder.  The line art is in pencil and kept loose in style and all built up in layers on the computer so things can be moved around, replaced and altered easily.  

Artworks like this one go through several drafts from the initial concept sketch based on client brief, developing into more detailed and then coloured rough sketches before the final image is tackled.  At all stages the work is emailed for feedback which is either sent back via email or with me frantically scribbling down comments from the client on the phone, hey who says men can't multitask?

My Wildlife Park Illustration, 2013