Darran Mountains
Plan oblique linework
From the Spring 2021 edition of Climbing in Aotearoa: The New Zealand Alpine Journal
This map was created to illustrate an article by my friend Nia Weinzweig about her summer adventures in the Darran Mountains in the 2020/2021 season.
Approaching Moir’s Mate (© Nia Weinzweig)
Nia provided me with a list of locations and a rough sketch map, and some examples of her incredible ink drawings.
A young kea (© Nia Weinzweig)
Using a DEM in Blender, and only rendering Freestyle silhouettes and contours from a tilted orthographic camera, I was able to create a plan oblique map of the area in a style that complemented the artwork that would also feature in the article.
The linework was exported as an SVG vector file to Illustrator, where I added the labels of all the main peaks, lakes, rivers, and other spots mentioned in the article.