A double page spread for 'Hand Drawn maps - a guide for creatives' for the chapter on treasure maps. Historically they didn't exist and usually appear in fictional and cinematic accounts of pirates like 'Treasure Island', 'The Goonies' and 'Pirates of the Caribbean'.  This illustration was hand painted with ink and coffee grounds using all the traditional tropes of a treasure map.
Treasure Map
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Treasure Map

A double page spread illustrating a treasure map for a chapter on fictional pirate maps for 'Hand Drawn Maps - a guide for creatives'. Thames and Read More

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