Free Time City Drawing

[hasty crater]

unfortunate but yea

and you cant really do anything against the companies if you wanted to

[plush fern]

road

[hasty crater]

Wait did you make this in a music mixer

[plush fern]

nah, acad

thats how roads are actually drawn on engineering drawings

well, roads with kerb

lmao

[hasty crater]

Ok I was a bit worried for a second lol

[plush fern]

😂

[golden lion]

Does anyone make a kind of "adult coloring book" for these kinds of hand-drawn city drawings?

Like a drawing book, on solid stock, but with a different "scenario" on each page (rivers, topography, etc).

Would that even be of interest to y'all?

[hasty crater]

you could probably make you own with a topography map https://ngmdb.usgs.gov/topoview/viewer

this is a topograpy map for the usa

and you take pictures and print it out

[hasty crater]

other than that i dont think there is anything like what you are describing

[hasty crater]

that would be interesting though just too busy to make one myself

[golden lion]

Would it be something you'd consider paying for if it was available?

[hasty crater]

Maybe in the future but not right now

[jolly orbit]

barely expanded it (additional tile with only coastline, rivers, and three roads)

[jolly orbit]

general idea of topography as well

[harsh glade]

This is based on a mixture of Montenegrin landscape and Montenegrin and Russian language. The places are named after the people I met and made friends with in Montenegro

^ drew those whilst on the plane (LHR - DBV)

[jolly orbit]

nice roads

at first glance i thought the coastline in the first image looked like seattle

not really

[harsh glade]

osm 🔥

[jovial gulch]

all these are pretty

[loud thorn]

Thas sickkkk

[harsh glade]

Thanks!!

[slate thistle]

Ukraine future highway map

[crimson iron]

Started a drawing class this semester for my civil engineering program
Maybe that'll motivate me to make another map in my spare time....
Perhaps during reading week?

[slate thistle]

These dots are interchanges

[loud thorn]

Thas a sick scania on ur pfp cl

[harsh glade]

Cheers 🔥

I think so too. By far not the best I’ve spotted but Hadley group do have some gorgeous trucks tho

[loud thorn]

Honestlyy the colours work so well

They dont have much NG ones tho

[glacial lintel]

Residential estate with prefab type buildings, and a tram and bus loop for better accesibility

[sonic pebble]

What do you guys do for scaling?

Inspired by Paris in part, the train station is a (likely unnecessarily) bigger version of the one in Leipzig with the two directions of rail mimicking what happens with Gare du Nord and Gare du L’est in Paris.
I put trams on the large avenues, bike lanes are pinkish.
For scale, the distance between each dot is meant to be 10 meters.
Do you guys think the streets by the church are a bit too narrow?

[sonic pebble]

Wowzers

[loud thorn]

I havent done some in a long time but i usually base it off the roads and recently i have been using OGF and OSM so on there i usually js use the measurement tool

[rancid tide]

Something fun if you want to try it - Autodesk gives free student licenses for high school students and university students for AutoCAD, which is what professionals use in the real world for these sort of ordeals

[crimson iron]

Yeah, I've been learning how to use it in one of my courses and hopefully I'll be able to use it as much as possible in my university years at least for other things

[sonic pebble]

It’s hard to make realistic looking natural features in AutoCAD, good for rough models for buildings and cities though, I might take your advice and try creating a city in it

[rancid tide]

It defenitely is tricky with CAD - I don't use CAD at work but whenever I do urban design reports at work I'll CAD plans and then import them into a paint program (Illustrator for me) and model them out that way

Nothing wrong with using other programs I just find CAD easiest with units, etc. makes sure you're always in scale

But whatever program you're using it looks really good

[sonic pebble]

I’m using the apple equivalent of MS whiteboard, good enough to allow me to zoom in

Thanks for the tips, if I have a free couple of hours I might try modelling a building or two in autoCAD, it really just depends on the amount of detail I’d eventually put in

[loud thorn]

Sign me upppp

[loud thorn]

Is this avaliable in the UK?

[rancid tide]

I think it's global, I'm in Canada and had no issues with it

[loud thorn]

Oh alrr so how do i activate this deal?

[rancid tide]

I don't think I can send links, but search "Education access to Autodesk products"

Autodesk is the creator of AutoCAD

Then, from there, you can go through and get AutoCAD or AutoCAD LT

Just follow the steps in there

I'd recommend AutoCAD LT - it's more simplified

It'll just ask you to confirm your education details, etc.

[brave cargo]

When I had robotics in high school they made us use solidworks

I never got the certification for it though

[crimson iron]

I can readily access a bunch of things (SolidWorks, AutoCAD, Rhino 3D, Revit, etc.) through my university's engineering computer labs (and even remotely access the labs)
Not sure if you have centralized school board logins like this

Hell I just did a Rhino 3D exam this night using this system
It was a crazy ride...

I was the only person who had technical difficulties accessing the files using the special login system, so I lost ten minutes at the start
That left me a bit jittery and I made a couple of mistakes as I drew the bridge segment in 2D before extruding it
But the real chaos started when I tried to do a section cut and completely whiffed on getting it to appear correctly in the third angle projections
So I drew the rest up to course drafting standards and worked on the section cut at the very end
Figured it out 5 minutes before the end of the exam for everyone else, but I got a deserved lifeline with a 10 minute extension
Which allowed me to correctly draft the section and hand it in for a possibility of full marks (I finished with two minutes to spare out of the two hour time limit)

Thankfully I managed to destress from this by doing a chill fibreglass layup on a canoe with friends

[crimson iron]

I used Fusion 360 for this purpose
I now use SolidWorks on a university design team
More of a mech-oriented CAD program than a civ one

I'm starting to learn BIM stuff in class though (Revit)

[sonic pebble]

You think it’s good to be on a design team for civil?>

I use Onshape but am a noob

[loud thorn]

Thanks tha worked

[loud thorn]

Whas autocad LT?

[rancid tide]

Just a simplified version of AutoCAD

For what you're trying to do I'd say AutoCAD LT would be the best

That's what our designers use at my firm here

[loud thorn]

Ive successfully downloaded AutoCAD thanks sm for tha man appreicate it

[loud thorn]

Ohh yea ill check tha out i downloaded Autocad Map 3D tho

[loud thorn]

So can i still access AutoCAD LT even tho ive already signed up for normal AutoCAD?

[rancid tide]

I’m not sure, if you have normal AutoCAD it’ll do all the same stuff

[slate thistle]

I have the same question for you, because your drawing seems to be pretty well scaled

[slate thistle]

For example here, the cities seems to be in much larger scale than the surrounding areas

[sonic pebble]

the distance between every two of those dots is arbitrarily defined as 10 meters

a driving lane is about 3 meters wide

and a parking lane is about 2 meters wide

I go on google earth to see how big the buildings are

[loud thorn]

Yeaa i realised tha its calm

[slate thistle]

why haven't I thought about it

[loud thorn]

So I was really bored and not tired last night 😭

[loud thorn]

Made this very confusing intersection for my OGF project

[slate thistle]

Reminds me of this: https://maps.app.goo.gl/bQBAUJ4oyTbWGjNb6?g_st=com.google.maps.preview.copy

[loud thorn]

Ooh yea thas a really interesting intersection

[loud thorn]

Icl it reminds me of a turbine intersection w a lil bit extra

[wary pivot]

Are these fictional or real city drawings?

Or both?

[loud thorn]

Both

It dont rlly matter

[harsh glade]

Long time since I’ve drawn any maps. Back at it again; welcome to Alazhymga. This city (capital): Alash/Алашь. Small coastline, very nearly landlocked huge country, Around Mongolia size. Capital city is on it’s only coastline, it’s a small port city. It is NOT the biggest city in the country. City planners somewhat took road hierarchy into account, with the international route passing through the country along the coastline between it’s neighbours either side being prioritised, as well as the regional route connecting the city to the rest of the sparsely populated country’s road network. The suburban areas have been loosely planned in a grid system however a lot of it has developed in a sprawl like manner. The nation’s economy is not great due to limited investment and natural resources.

The country’s landscape is majority steppe, with some sparse forestry in the far north. In some cases, there could be up to 250kms from civilisation to civilisation, only broken up by small villages. The country, like Mongolia, Tuva, and much of Central Asia adheres to a buddhist majority religion, and outside of the 3 cities and 51 towns, people live a nomadic, agricultural focussed lifestyle.

The nation’s official language is Russian as it is a (fictional ofc) FSU country, however languages differ regionally. In the north, a dialect of Tuvan is primarily spoken. The dialect is very similar and is mutually intelligible. The west of the country is extremely sparsely populated, with only 1 town of notable size, and small villages scattered sparsely. The primary languages in this region are Alasian (a distant dialect of Tuvan. Pronounced: Al - asian (as in Asia)), Tuvan, Kazakh, Mongolian, and some other endangered dialects & languages spoken by less than 100 people in some cases. The majority of the population (1.9 million) live in either the capital, Alash, or in the 2 other cities, both located in the south. In the south, Russian, Mongolian and Alasian are largely spoken.

In the east, which houses the country’s only coastline & the capital city, Russian and Alasian are spoken, with small communities of Mongolians, Tuvans, Kazakhs, Uyghurs, Turks & interestingly a small diaspora of Thais.

[loud thorn]

Tha looks amazing

I think u would love OGF

[jolly orbit]

looks nice!

[loud thorn]

Icl I haven’t ever done a hand drawn map in sooo long

[harsh glade]

I do love OGF, I haven't applied to any territory yet though because there's a fair bit you need to do to prove to them that it's worth giving you a territory, and in all honesty I cba bc i dont have the free time to do it all. I draw maps when travelling or late evenings, and I don't like to be at my computer late at night

[loud thorn]

Oh fair enough icl I used to do a lot of hand drawn maps but ever since I found OGF and even OSM I’ve basically transferred over

[loud thorn]

Found some of my old drawings

[odd saddle]

Love the detail

[loud thorn]

Thanks this acc used to be my most hated drawing bc i prioritsed scale and wanted huge cities but now i realise this is prob one of the best

[odd saddle]

Yeah more focused is almost always the best route at least for me. It’s easier to tell how life would move around that area than an entire city

[loud thorn]

Yea I see tha cl plus it looks more realistic

And more like a map u would find on google maps

[loud thorn]

Made some updates

[cerulean jasper]

So yesterday I was playing assassins creed Valhalla and I fell in love with the medival/viking age castles and forts. So last night I made a fictional capitol that I absolutely love

[earnest python]

95xf has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[harsh glade]

Oops

[harsh glade]

As I was saying tho, this is so advanced, I love it. You can tell that it must have taken you a while.

[cerulean jasper]

Thanks you! Surprisingly it didn’t take me long, I probably spent 4 hours on it, it’s part of a whole medival area that I’m creating.

[harsh glade]

Sick, I’d love to see more :D

[minor crystal]

Municipal airport for my city

[cerulean jasper]

Oh yo that’s sick

[loud thorn]

Thas niceeee

[minor crystal]

Thing is like you can only use one runway at a time

So planes would have to wait on the taxiway and than turn on when it was their turn

I could takeoff 045 and 225

[slate thistle]

Maybe it wouldn't be an issue as it's only a municipal airport

Also you probably wouldn't use more than two runways at a time due the wind

[loud thorn]

Yea thas a common design used in many regional airports or airfields

usually army airfields

esp in the UK

[minor crystal]

its set 30s/50s

[slate thistle]

an international airport for the city of Lublin

[hasty crater]

Then reason why this layout exists is to avoid potential airport closures when there are strong winds

[minor crystal]

Well that’s why you use 3 runways

If the window is going 36 say

Take 04 or 31

Try to ride the wind

If it’s going 09 take 27

[loud thorn]

why dont u do ogf?

[hasty crater]

Its a bit complicated to figure out at first IG

especially when you are trying to draw a airport and other large stuff

JOSM is basically required

[loud thorn]

True i had struggled with that

espeically scale issues

but yk slowly but surely u start to get it

[loud thorn]

Yea ive tried making an airport asw the best i got to was one terminal building

[loud thorn]

if u put ur time into it then it isnt too hard

[crimson iron]

Finally getting to mess around in ArcGIS for the first time in years

[spare cosmos]

any suggestions? completly made up btw

[loud thorn]

Ooh i think colour in the river so u can acc diffrentiate between land and water

[spare cosmos]

it was all done in pen but i think on my next one i might

[jolly orbit]

could color code the other large roads as well

[spare cosmos]

that'd be cool

i migh do that

[hasty crater]

Use marker/colored pencils instead of pen for filling in the road ROW

Use a ruler for some of the building

[spare cosmos]

not at school lol

[cerulean jasper]

I am mostly done with stage one of my medieval world project, it’s been a while since I’ve been sick, but here’s what I got so far

[spare cosmos]

wow

thats cool a heck

[cerulean jasper]

I’ve gone through a few different styles to test them out

[spare cosmos]

nice

[errant citrus]

I used to do somthing like this, when I was a little one, I really enjoyed it

I have this giant 5 meater long peice of paper with a whole coutry on it (it is really unprofesional and messy tho)

[slate thistle]

Haven't drawn anything in a while so here's a WIP rail transportation plan for the Upper Silesian Metro Area

[plush fern]

im going through my desks to clean them out and stumbled across this that i drew about 4 years ago

[jolly orbit]

woah

[slate thistle]

Really nice

[hasty crater]

Damn your lane markings look really nice

I could never draw something that good lol

[loud thorn]

That is amazing

[rugged gull]

Here's a city I drew a couple months ago(doesn't have much, and the scale isn't consistent)

[loud thorn]

Thats nice tbh

good start

we all started somewhere tbh

scale doesnt really matter in this its more if it comes together in the end which that has really well

[rugged gull]

:))

And here's something I'm drawing right now, that diagonal portion is inspired from Segunda Beach commercial corridor in ep 1

[loud thorn]

Thats a good start

Honestly i havent done paper drawings in so long mainly bc im doing OGF

so i dont have the motivation 😭

[sturdy bough]

It's like playing Cities: Skylines on a piece of paper ❤️

[loud thorn]

Exactly sometimes when the scale is close up

i put some little cars asw

and make some traffic

[jolly orbit]

tried making an outer loop for asheville

kinda demolishes a ton of stuff tho

[rugged gull]

Here's a city/village thing I drew while at school today, gonna keep expanding it.

Also unmetalled roads are just a single line, the 2 parallel lines that start on the left part of the img are double train tracks. And cross the river at the top.

Left part I said because the image is rotated sideways btw. And those dotted boundaries represent farmland. The wide road is a hwy.

[rugged gull]

Hmm. This chat is dead again. 🙃

Really the only reason I'm here lol.

[golden lion]

How can I get started with these? Is there a good beginner’s guide?

[jolly orbit]

it’s real helpful to look at an area youre familiar with and want to use for inspiration and take note of some patterns

and then just sit down with some paper and pencil and dont overthink it

[loud thorn]

Tbh i would post but i do most of my work on OGF now

And theres only so much time in a day where i can do everything

[rugged gull]

So how is that city thing I drew?

[loud thorn]

Oh yea mbb

[loud thorn]

This actually has potential

I think some colour would make it nice

[rugged gull]

Ye I'll colour it eventually after I made a part that I'll not change. (I pretend I'm playing cities skylines like this lol)

[loud thorn]

Yeaa na tbh I used to do that

I used to make a map and colour it all in the end

Cuz I would map and then sleep and think of new ideas 😭

[loud thorn]

Its a nice thought tbh sometimes if the scale is tolerable I add a few cars

Traffic

Nd all

[sweet narwhal]

Didn’t know other people did this!

[jolly orbit]

thats a nice map

reminds me of oregon a little

[sweet narwhal]

Inspired a little off of it!

[brave cargo]

honestly, your map is already looking cooler than my maps

[sweet narwhal]

Hey, thanks!! :)

[sweet narwhal]

Getting started on something new- basically a revamp of the map I posted a few days ago go but much better

[brave cargo]

I should start making maps again fr

[sweet narwhal]

Do itttt trust

It’s so fun

[brave cargo]

I should get Adobe illustrator and start making them on there

Instead of on paper

[sweet narwhal]

Just fun to sketch out little areas. I do it as a way to mentally clear my mind. Quite therapeutic… and also because I’m a nerd for urban planning haha

[brave cargo]

This feels more like urban design than planning tbh

Planning is very policy and analytic focused

[sweet narwhal]

I kinda use a mix of both- urban design first and then I go in with rules and laws to throw at areas to fix them

Which is why it’s done in pencil

I use zoning and policy laws typically from Upstate New York, Montana, and Washington. Forces me to use diversity as my drawings usually try to mix in every style of American cultures that reside in different areas around the country

[rugged gull]

Need to continue my one fr
I also like drawing maps lol

[sweet narwhal]

Who doesn’t?!

[brave cargo]

The problem is whenever I start on them, I never get to finish them

Lack of motivation to do so

[rugged gull]

Same

[urban steppe]

I got bored so I started a napkin city welcome to Naptopion

[jolly orbit]

thats a strong napkin if it didnt tear

[urban steppe]

I was surprised when I started also a very good pen barely had to touch it to draw

[jolly orbit]

pretty clean lines too thats a good pen

[urban steppe]

Indeed it is I’m glad I choose that one instead of the other I had otherwise it would’ve looked like a meteor hit it

[loud thorn]

That is neatttt

Tbh with my drawings i usually use british planning habits

roundabouts

and roundabouts

and more roundabouts

[cerulean jasper]

Guys I haven’t done city drawing in a whileeee, any suggestions on a project I can do to get me started up again?

[loud thorn]

England and American mapping style Combined

[cerulean jasper]

Woah

That’s

Interesting

I’ll see

[cerulean jasper]

I’ve never done a British style ever so I’ll have to do research

[cerulean jasper]

Here’s what I’ve got so far

[winter quartz]

I refer to my map drawings as art.

Found this recently

A suburban office park inspired art piece

Cul-de-sac hell. The disconnected isolated cookiecutter neighborhoods of an exurban township along a major interstate.

Zezon Corporation's global headquarters campus.

Zezon is huge and their campus sprawls across dozens of buildings. Many of these buildings on the surface appear to be isolated surrounded by grass with a few foot paths with large vents interspersed. This is because the parking was being moved into large under ground multilevel garages as a way to make the campus look "cleaner". As all the building are connected by underground concourses. That are also integrated into the underground garages.

The campus also has its own metro station seen in the bottom left corner.

[cerulean jasper]

Holy bro

I would not have enough life in me to do 5% of that

[winter quartz]

These drawings are old from like 5-10 years ago. I have not done any recently

[cerulean jasper]

Gosh still though

[cerulean jasper]

It’s so good

[loud thorn]

Thats acc impressive

[loud thorn]

I swr I need to make complicated intersections like this at some point

[loud thorn]

That looks amazing

[slate thistle]

M8 extension to Györ forming a large southern Budapest bypass

[slate thistle]

M76 extension and Keszthely grade separated bypass

[slate thistle]

added some more detail

[jolly orbit]

cool

[slate thistle]

Thanks

[slate thistle]

something's cooking

[slate thistle]

roads in Toruń WIP

[slate thistle]

finished

[loud thorn]

Drafted up a motorway sign for my fictional city in OpenGeoFiction

[slate thistle]

you inspired me to draw a sign for the Toruń Południe interchange

[loud thorn]

Ooh that's actually nice

[rugged gull]

Anyways here's something I drew in a 5cm×5cm square
Random city with a whole Key lol

Oh and I forgot, the black pen line with the thing is the train line with a station

Double track

[jolly orbit]

looks nice

[slate thistle]

concept of north-western bypass that would cut down half of the forest

[fringe spruce]

decided to join this thread since i jsut finished this. Northern urban/suburban area of Tanner city

[void cloud]

Started drawing this

Gonna fill this entire page (or at least that is my goal)

[loud thorn]

U should make the highway roads a thicker density

[loud thorn]

The detail is amazing

[loud thorn]

Put this together while trying to sleep because I had one too many red bulls 😭🙏

[void cloud]

Looks good but what the hell did you do to those suburbs

[loud thorn]

Cul de sacs 😭

Similar to this

But over exaggerated

[void cloud]

very very exaggerated

[loud thorn]

🤣🤣🤣

I was very very tired 😭

[plush fern]

I dont remember if ive posted this one, but i was digging through a book i found and saw this one that i drew up a while ago

[brave cargo]

This looks like something that a civil engineer would draft tbh, this is great!

[untold flower]

j

[hallow sinew]

Is there a type of pencil yall use to get such tiny lined

Lines*

[hasty crater]

Any good 0.5mm lead mechanical pencil should work

[hallow sinew]

Whats a regular wood pencil

[hallow sinew]

AYYYYY

I see that RON server

[hasty crater]

You have to constantly rotate to have a thin top

[hallow sinew]

Yeah ive noticed

[hallow sinew]

I was bored so i made a downtown single point interchange + offshoot road diamond esque

[plush fern]

Drew this up on CAD for my engineering assignment so i figured id share. For context we have to make a design for the reprioritization of a rural highway (essentially converting from rural use to urban use). It roughly complies with Australian standards

[loud thorn]

Woah that's amazing

[loud thorn]

They are the worst cuz they go blunt within 5 minutes

[loud thorn]

And that

[loud thorn]

Ooh I've been tryna get the hang of CAD

Never did 😭🙏

[hallow sinew]

I had to use an electronics and pcb cad and hated it

Cant imagine this lol

[plush fern]

It really is difficult at first, like theres alotta different function in CAD, let alone civil3D😭

but after working at my firm for almost 2 years ive got a solid grip on it now

I did also make a roundabout for the same assignment

[jolly orbit]

i like how the white shows where the road used to be

[untold flower]

im not an actual citty planner so can u explain what CAD is or is it only an education thingy

nvm i found out how to use google

[sonic pebble]

3d design software

I like using solidworks

CAD = computer aided design

[brave cargo]

Solidworks is bad, rhino is kind of goated

[crimson iron]

SolidWorks is solid…for mech stuff

I use it for mech stuff but use AutoCAD for civ stuff

Although I was the only one in the class to do a civ CAD project using SolidWorks and it was chaos

I have learned Rhino but I don’t really use it that much

[void cloud]

diabolical fictional interchange i cooked up for downtown Utrecht, the Netherlands

[jolly orbit]

epic

[winter quartz]

Autocad is primarily used by Civil engineers and as a planner I am not a math guy and I mostly use GIS and art programs for making graphics and maps

[minor crystal]

Should a lane be 1 block or 0.5 block wide on graph paper?

[crimson iron]

Depends on the scope of the map

Whole block wide is generally easier for neatness for straight-line segments, but I also don't really do lane drawing

[minor crystal]

Working on a downtown, got a church and parking lot laid down

[untold flower]

im getting back into ts

[void cloud]

been a while since this thread was active but starting a lil osm style map in microsoft pain

without layers

[jolly orbit]

why not an osm style map using josm software

theres a collaborative project im a part of that does that

[void cloud]

Because I don't want to

Idk

I could but I like it this way

[meager solar]

oh this chat is super cool, let me see what i can contribute lolol

[slate thistle]

https://postimg.cc/mPPsjg8S

Finished the map of all bus routes in Lublin

technically it's not all as it's missing the Green, White and 9XX lines, but these are terminus - depot lines

[void cloud]

Just finished this Serfaus U-bahn map

It's so useful

[jolly orbit]

look up opengeofiction

you might like

[loud thorn]

I can vouch

[untold flower]

j

[void cloud]

j

[loud thorn]

...not 50 miles but more like 10

or 5

(Refer back to old planning school thread)

[loud thorn]

@vernal vigil @tight knot

[tight knot]

You're gonna have to give me a bit more context

[hollow mortar]

post a pic again

[cobalt fox]

This is a continuation of this archived thread: #933994686325096518 message

[brave cargo]

man i didnt know that thread was a thing

ill post my most recent project here

taking some inspiration from dcs georgetown area

but added light rails around the middle areas of the stroads

[loud thorn]

Thanks yes that’s what I am talking about

[loud thorn]

Nice 👍🏻

[livid yacht]

DC does need tramways tbh

[loud thorn]

Anyways I think most high streets have a shopping centre/mall on them

Well high streets near me do except for a few that are just short pedestrianised streets with a row of shops. <@&787910105185124392>

[brave cargo]

Currently in progress of making a university campus

[loud thorn]

Nice

[brave wasp]

I might have to start drawing a city 😂 that looks really cool

[loud thorn]

ikr its actually pretty relaxing making cities like those once you get into it

[brave cargo]

I’ve been drawing cities since my 6th grade year

I’m currently a senior in high school

[frozen siren]

Why can’t I draw 😭

[brave cargo]

I can’t draw

[frozen siren]

It looks so pretty

[lunar sand]

I used to draw giant cities out of my imagination when i was younger, they were bad drawings, but i wanna see if i can find some

[lunar sand]

Thats a beiatiful drawing

This is an example of an oitline for a large metropolitan area i drew. It has way too many freeways(i have others that are even worse) idk what any of the stuff really represents anymore tho

I drew an airport on the otherside

[loud thorn]

Oh ye I used to do drawings like that

[loud thorn]

Looks like a countryside

Here is what I have been working on (North)

There has been major development since I took and posted this picture

This is another part (Central)

I can’t find a name for it tho

I have the name Bennington and Clinton

But I need to think of more because I think that’s not good enough name for a UK based city

[lunar sand]

Those are some really nice drawings

[brave wasp]

Very pretty 😄

[loud thorn]

Thanks 😊

[loud thorn]

Has anyone got a name for my city? I can’t think of any

[lunar sand]

Ummm idk

Emberton?

Ederton?

Steaton?

Brookton?

If yur going with the british theme those soud alright

Drarenham?

Idk literally just taking words getting rid of a few letters then addind some others, and then adding in a british town ending sounding thingy

[misty crow]

It depends on where you are wanting to place your city. Given the design I would say it looks more like one you would find in the UK or France, or maybe some parts of Spain (although given the large river in the Central location, is would go with the two former areas. I then look at those areas for naming inspiration by changing an existing name (like @lunar sand did) or mashing up different names.

Take for instance the Central city area. It reminds me of Rouen in France because it is a large city that straddles a large river (the Seine) with an island in the middle (Ile Lacroix). The city has major arterials going through the center has the major connections are roundabouts.

So you could look to Rouen for some naming inspiration

Then if you would like to mash it up with an English name (or any other UK country), you could look at the common prefix/suffix usage to that area (prefix: dal-, aber-, nant-, sud-, etc.; suffix: -ham, -ton, -ford, -bury, -stead, -borough, etc.) I would take a look at the meaning of the prefix and suffix as well to see if there is one that aligns with the city, like -bury means fortified enclosure, -ford means crossing or road, dal- means meadow or low-lying area by a river, or nant- means ravine or the stream in it.

So you could then take these pieces of information and create something like Roueford (Rouen + -ford) or Ile Dalford (ile + dal + ford = island of the meadow by the river crossing)

Also take a look at historical and ancient names for inspiration. Lets take a look at Rouen again - the Velocassi tribe originally called the city Ratumacos, and then once the Romans conquered the area they changed the name to Rotomagus. The city was also fought over by the English and French for hundreds of years with some changes to the name that eventually resulted in the current name.

Hopefully this helps!

[misty crow]

Oh, and this goes without saying but names can also be after people, geologic/geographic features, animals, etc. So it could be Fourloford (4lf + -ford = 4lf's crossing or road, like you crossed the river at that location)

[loud thorn]

Ye I’ve also been trying that. I think that’s the problem

[loud thorn]

Oh ye that is a good way to find a name

[loud thorn]

Looks like someone already thought of that

[loud thorn]

I just thought, what if I join 2 prefixes and it makes: Hamton

Or aberton

Obv some prefixes mixed together don’t sound right but some do

Or Amberton

[vernal vigil]

Bergville

Located in Alsace

Part German (Burg), part French (ville)

[loud thorn]

Hmm I’ll think about it

[loud thorn]

You know @misty crow your map drawing strategy is very good for copying real places or copying other maps such as in games or in google maps

[misty crow]

That is true! And I have done that before, haha!!

I am ordering a new set of pens though that include more colors so I can really start to differentiate between areas (more for other people who look at my drawings rather than me).

[misty crow]

Any update on your drawing?

[misty crow]

How is yours coming along?

[brave cargo]

Will show when I come back I’m currently nowhere near my drawing atm

also I did a terrible attempt to make an arena/stadium on the university campus

[loud thorn]

I finished it I’ll send a picture later

[loud thorn]

I am making a more countryside area even more north than now because I copied a map from a game and thought hmm I can integrate it into my city so i did

I was a coincidence actually my city was very similar to the map

So I could just move some roads to make it extend

Which I did

[brave cargo]

@misty crow the update

[brave cargo]

Ladies and gents the campus is officially done

The cluster of blocks near the middle are dorms

The big block on the middle left is supposed to be a hospital

The big block beside the dorm is an arena

And above the hospital is the stadium

[brave cargo]

Made this area a bit better

[misty crow]

This is coming along quite nicely! Good job on integrating the college campus into the city but still making it distinct. I also liked that you chose to break up the grid and started using more curvilinear streets. Now, do you have a plan for a central train station?

[brave cargo]

Yes but I’m not good with trains

I’m more of a road person

I started making train tracks on my maps not too long ago

[loud thorn]

that looks niceee

but ye as @misty crow said, you need Train tracks

[brave cargo]

I do

[loud thorn]

Nice

[brave cargo]

The problem is I’m not very experienced with making train tracks so I’m not very great at building a train station

I’m a road kind of person when it comes to map making as you could tell

[brave cargo]

Don’t they have a lightrail already

[loud thorn]

just design it like the normal buildings but with the train tracks running through it

[brave cargo]

I’m aware of that but the train tracks are the complicated part to it

Bc they go all over the place

[loud thorn]

Ohhh k

thats why i use pencil then i go over it in pen

[brave cargo]

I never use pen

I always use pencil when drawing my cities

[loud thorn]

ye then rub some train tracks out

and put in a station

[livid yacht]

kinda? they have a single streetcar and a peripheral light metro under construction

[loud thorn]

@misty crow

So I finished the north of Amberton (My main city name). Then there is Moyton which is a small town and Castletown which is a village

Castleton is the one surrounding in countryside

[misty crow]

That looks really awesome!!!

I did find it interesting that you have two parallel highways in the north though. Are they the same caliber or intended to be different?

[loud thorn]

It is the same but they are going in opposite directions @misty crow

[brave cargo]

New updates on my map coming soon, will release here today maybe

[lunar sand]

Cool

[loud thorn]

Ight cool

[loud thorn]

You gonna post it? @brave cargo

[brave cargo]

Gonna fix some of the roads and buildings soon

@loud thorn

[loud thorn]

thats nice, its developed so much since the first time you showed us

[brave cargo]

im kind of getting bored of this project, but i want to finish it, its normal for me to feel this way about all of my projects after working on them for a while

but i do have big plans for this project

want to be able to colorcode the zoning on this map

[misty crow]

I get that way as well. Sometimes I find it helps to take a break from it and work on something else, then circle back around.

[loud thorn]

Same but i am more commited on the project I am working on now rather than my last one as the scales were all off, the houses were smaller than the road and stuff

[loud thorn]

Ye I do that as well

I think it’s an artist thing to do that

Sometimes you get bored

[lapis cradle]

That's absolutely beutiful

[loud thorn]

Thanks 😊

[brave cargo]

New project

I’ve been told to put more taxiways in the airport, but I’m too lazy to do that

Lots of work in progress

[lunar sand]

That looks really awesome

[loud thorn]

Nice looks cool

[split raven]

so nice to know that i'm not the only one who draws maps lol

[loud thorn]

Lol ye I always thought that too

[shadow dagger]

I think this shows good road networks to allow the traffic to flow!

[loud thorn]

I agree actually

[misty crow]

This looks awesome! Good job on the airport

[loud thorn]

I haven’t drawn my city since the start of the holiday

[brave cargo]

Thanks

I made more progress on it, might show it later on

[loud thorn]

Part 2 is here (N) | Part 3 (NE) Soon

Changes:

1. New Bridge symbol
2. Road routes on main roads added (e.g: A789)

Dual carriageway is (e.g A34) in a box

[lunar sand]

hmm, looks really good

[loud thorn]

Thanks 😊

[loud thorn]

I recommend watching Citydrawer on tik tok

[misty crow]

Here is the progress I have made on my drawing so far. I have not had a desire to work on this drawing so it is taking me a lot longer than usual to get it done.

I also will probably be switching up the pens so I can have a more diverse color scheme, really try and use the colored pens to match the zoning colors

[lunar sand]

looks really cool

[loud thorn]

Looks very nice 👍🏻

[loud thorn]

I think that would be a good addition

[brave cargo]

I don’t use tiktok

[loud thorn]

oh k but his drawings are awesome and could give you some inspiration

[misty crow]

I have been able to watch his videos just by Googling him, you don't need tiktok to actually watch the videos

[loud thorn]

@brave cargo

[brave cargo]

?

[loud thorn]

Try searching citydrawer on google

Or use Tik tok website

[brave cargo]

yeah i did

[loud thorn]

I think that’s the perfect design because there are enough houses on a row before it gets split by another road

Maybe colour the water blue with colouring pencil

[brave cargo]

you just reminded me, i should continue on my drawing

[misty crow]

I am back to enjoying drawing again. It is a nice a stress reliever.

[brave cargo]

for me, its a stress reliever that i cant do long term

[loud thorn]

Same but I can do it long term

[loud thorn]

Working on a New project called Renford, which is UK based

[lapis cradle]

• hides from tiktoker

[loud thorn]

Bro I ain’t those cringe ones, it’s ok

[warm snow]

Cool little project I just started

[loud thorn]

Nice 👍🏻

[misty crow]

That looks like a great start!!

[loud thorn]

I actually made some progress on my map this week

[loud thorn]

@brave cargo how would I make an airport and a college campus, How big should it be roughly?

[shadow dagger]

I would find college campus examples in real life for the scale. google maps is SUPER helpful to zoom in, see layouts, understand size, etc

[brave cargo]

i would take some inspiration of real life airports/campuses and how they are designed, and it honestly depends on the size of the real life scale

[loud thorn]

Oh thanks guys

[brave cargo]

Yw

[pulsar kite]

Drew Dallas freeway loop by memory, no images looked at intact I didn’t look at the loop at all for an hour before that

[loud thorn]

That’s sicc

I haven’t really worked on my city as I am taking a break and drawing other things

[loud thorn]

I got my first brief. So basically we are doing a picnic to celebrate the Queen's Platinum jubilee at school and we have to make a poster that shows our class and the queen so we decided to go with a London Bus, London Post Box, People holding hands around a globe, Map of London labelled with landmarks and the Bitmoji's of everyone in our class. I also requested a Range Rover with the Jubilee colour scheme because the Queen loves her Off-roaders. I am doing the Map, Bus, Post Box and Range Rover

[loud thorn]

I have finished the bus but i need to add the Platinum jubilee livery, i didnt draw a routemaster but i drew the new Enviro 400EV

The Enviro 400EV i am basing my drawing on

The post box is the easiest

2 Mins Max.

[supple creek]

love that livery! so cute, great photo

[loud thorn]

Ikr I’ll send a pic of my drawing later

[loud thorn]

Bro my city drawings attract so much attention

i do it at school so alot of people realise it

they always ask "Did you trace it?" I say no obviously because i didnt and i drew

I finally found my talent

even attracts girls lol

😆

[loud thorn]

Looking back that looks computer-generated but then if you zoom in you can see the felt-tips, how do you keep the paper so clean? I always have grey paper, due to pencil lead, by the end

[misty crow]

I try not to draw when its hot here, lol! I usually have a kleenex or paper towel under my hand to avoid any sweat or smudges. Also, when I draw my ideas with pencil and I get a design I like, I wil lightly erase the pencil before I go over it with pens.

[loud thorn]

Ye I normally colour my water in blue

With pencil or sharpie

[loud thorn]

how much mm is each runway width and length?

[brave cargo]

I have no idea I haven’t worked on this in over 2 months

[loud thorn]

can you measure pls?

[brave cargo]

mk, im busy now so ill do it a little later

[loud thorn]

Ok