These originally appeared over at Mapstolgia which you should really check out if you haven’t already. Some of my other weekly sketches are over there too!
52 Sketches in 52 Weeks: Zork I Map
Category: art
52 Sketches for 52 Weeks: Mi-Go
A Tear-Drop of Green
It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.
— Neil Armstrong
There is perhaps no better a demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world.
— Carl Sagan
My view of our planet was a glimpse of divinity.
— Edgar Mitchel
This stunning picture of the earth was taken from NASA’s newest earth observing satellite, the Suomi NPP. Click to embiggen.
52 Sketches for 52 Weeks: Number 2
Certainly, not as good as last weeks. Someone on Talking Time pointed out this Tumblr blog called, Mapstalgia where people draw their recollections of maps from video games and submit them. I thought it was a neat idea and sketched out the Spielburg Valley. Makes sense I’m doing a Let’s Play of it right now. I submitted it and then looked through their backlog and saw that four or five other people have too (doh!) Oh, well. Hopefully I’ll have something better next week?