Here is the map of Germany I shared earlier, rendered as topographic stacks of construction paper.
For a detailed how-to, if you’d prefer, find all the steps and context here. In the meantime, here’s a punch list of how it went down…
SRTM getting…
Merging and blurring…
Contouring…
Applying a Paper Cut style and painting it up…
Creating a not-area-of-interest-overlay and giving it a Paper Cut style…
Adding city pins (in Paper Cut) coloring and randomly rotating…
Making title and label text look hand-drawn…
For a more detailed step-by-step, check out this blog post. Or grab the source Pro project and look under the hood.
Happy Mapping! John
I don’t know if it’s just my eye but the wavy paper edge of the white that clips the DEM paper stacks at the boundary makes me feel as though the colored area is all below the white surface. It might just be my brain and eyes tricking me though?
Your eyes do not betray you! This was my intention. It is supposed to look like a piece of paper with Germany cut out, overlain atop the elevation layers.