Illustrated Map for Broadway Books

A while back, I was contacted by Maria Carella at Random House, to work on a book project. The assignment called for a detailed illustrated map for the endpapers of the book, “Lost on Planet China”, by J. Maarten Troost.We got started on a sketch…It was decided, after getting input from the author, that some imagery derived from adventures in the tale was needed, so I made another sketch…The final art came out like this:I know you want some detail on this, Dear Reader, so here is a collection of close-ups for you…I had fun doing this illustrated map. It was a ton of work, but the end-product was successful, and is a worthy addition to this engaging book.