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 |
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