I have drawn many cartoon maps. Cartoon maps should be fun and informative and concise.
A cartoon map is an illustrated map of a certain place, be it a city, a country, ski resort or business showing the viewer what's going on, points of interst and how to navigate from one place to another.
Here are a few different cartoon map examples
Walton Pier
Not a very exciting looking pier, just one big oblong yellow building. So the job here was to make it look exciting. So for this cartoon map I used some heavy distortion of perspectives to make the half a mile long pier look good, and obviously take the roof off to show the “fun” inside. see larger pic
National park - New Zealand
This map was drawn for an Adventure company in New Zealand. They did many activities in a massive National park. So obviously could not take a photo of such a massive area. see larger pic
Mammoth Mountain Ski resort
This cartoon map was commissioned by Mammoth Mountain ski resort California to promote the ski area. They made them in to big posters and gave them away at ski shows. see larger pic
Hop Farm Theme Park
An interesting commission this one. They wanted a map drawn of their Christmas theme park - the only problem being was that they had not built the place at the time of commission but they wanted to advertise it from Easter onwards. So with a brief brief, I just made it up. see larger
Eastbourne Pier
More of a cartoon pic than a map. But here they asked me to draw the pier showing all their activities that happen on the pier and all their shops displayed around pic. They made posters and postcards with the cartoon to sell on the pier and used it brochures to advertise the Pier. see larger pic