Towards the end of last year, I completed my first map illustration for a returning client, Genea Saunders, the author of ‘The Life of Stevie Smortberry - Nana’s Got the Electric Touch’ to hint at the themes of her next book and I really enjoyed it!

The map features a bunch of spot illustrations including Caribbean carnival characters, an athletics track, a sewing machine and fashion sketches, Stevie’s high school, the bus she gets to school, and her favourite hang out spot, Morley’s chicken shop! It’s not super often that I do spot illustrations, rather than busy scenes, but I still enjoy them, and dotting them around on a map backdrop works in a similar way to give the audience clues of the storyline! Hoping this is the first of many more map illustrations!