Mikscifonia: The Smaller Island

This was created as part of a challenge at CartographersGuild.com. The idea was to team up with another cartographer on the site and submit a request to them. The request I got was to create an island that could be many sizes, anywhere from tiny to continent, and have that work (somehow). There was also a mention of unusual directions, I believe--something beyond the normal compass rose. The fancy compass here allows for three simultaneous directions of reckoning, based on three separate phenomena.

I created a pair of maps, one of which you see here, and an animated GIF that would blend the two together. This is the smaller island, while the larger one takes the same shape at a much greater scale.

As with most of my work, this was primarily created on an iPad Pro with the Apple Pencil, in the fantastic app Procreate. I will then normally bring the image into Photoshop to add the textual elements.