How to Draw a 3D City Map: A Bird’s Eye View

See a simple way to draw a Bird’s Eye View of a City in this pen drawing of a 3D map of a fantasy City. SUBSCRIBE for a new video each week: http://www.youtube.com/c/circlelineartschool Watch Next: How to Draw Buildings: http://bit.ly/1hdmn1W

How to Draw a 3D City Map Bird’s Eye View Step by Step:

1:To draw each building, you only need to draw the top of the roof!

2: Add some chimneys to give a feeling of scale

3: Add tone to one side of each roof, I use hatching and crosshatching; shading with parallel lines

4: The last step is to add dark shadows to one side of each building, these are important as they give the impression of the shape and size of the buildings.

For this drawing I just made the shapes up, as it was easier that way.

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More info on Drawing Map from the web:

Drawing The Line: The Art of The Map: A British Library Exhibition: http://bit.ly/2i0emxT

Wikipedia: Cartography:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartography

Here are two of my other How to Draw architecture videos you might like to watch next:

How to Draw a City in Two Point Perspective: http://bit.ly/1FxOiCO

How to Draw The Eiffel Tower: http://bit.ly/1VGW7g4

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Music used in this art tutorial: How to Draw a 3D City Map:

Frost Waltz by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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