Illustrating a map with many small icons
This is another recent project I was working on. It was done together with the team at Singapore Press Holdings. I only worked on creating the illustration icons. The area around the Singapore Zoo now has so many other attractions. The whole area is now called the Mandai Wildlife Reserve . I wished I had more time to go explore these places before I had to draw them, as a research and reference collecting trip. That would have been fun! But I didn't have the time so I had to work with reference photos already available online. Each location had to be distilled to a small picture icon. And that was the challenging part. Here you see the completed version, and it may look simple. But most of the time was spent on the concept sketches, to nail that angle, that position, and showing just the essentials to represent each place. I usually think up multiple variations of the same location as options, and then choose the best one. Then there are amendments. All this can take days or...
