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Anton Thomas
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 12 ม.ค. 2020
Hand-drawn maps might sound like a thing of the past, but they certainly are not. Because of technology we are now in a new golden age of cartography, and the tools that benefit digital creators are just as groundbreaking for us mapmakers using pencils or paint. On this channel I share my journey as an artist-cartographer, exploring the confluence of geography and art with hand-drawn maps.
Exploring the Map: The Mississippi River (from North America: Portrait of a Continent)
www.antonthomasart.com/ North America: Portrait of a Continent is a vast map that took me almost five years to draw by hand (colour pencil and pen). Join me on a paddle down the great Mississippi River, which flows through the heart of the continent. From the Northwoods of Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico, we discuss many features I've drawn along the way. (Highly recommend watching in HD)!
We explore more than just the banks of the river. The tour jumps to adjacent places such as Chicago, the Ozarks, and Acadiana. I also dusted off the guitar and harmonica, composing some music that I hope fits the feel of this expedition.
Like to see more of this map, and my other works? Much more (including prints) can be found here: www.antonthomasart.com/
Have a suggestion for another similar tour? Leave a comment below!
All music and maps by Anton Thomas.
We explore more than just the banks of the river. The tour jumps to adjacent places such as Chicago, the Ozarks, and Acadiana. I also dusted off the guitar and harmonica, composing some music that I hope fits the feel of this expedition.
Like to see more of this map, and my other works? Much more (including prints) can be found here: www.antonthomasart.com/
Have a suggestion for another similar tour? Leave a comment below!
All music and maps by Anton Thomas.
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The hand-drawn map of North America: Portrait of a Continent
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It took me nearly five years to complete this massive map of North America. Hand-drawn entirely with colour pencils and fine-liner pen, it contains tens of thousands of details - including countless skylines and animals, all laid across a landscape faithfully to geography. It spans from the tundra to the tropics - from Greenland, Alaska and Nunavut, through all of Canada, all of the United Stat...
Maybe my 🗺️ is better
Thank you so much for putting this out here! My brain is nice and stimulated, excited to explore more 🕺🏻
Impressive
Thank you!
I am a social studies teacher in Colorado, and I will absolutely be ordering one of these maps for my classroom and showing my students this video in hopes to inspire some future cartographers. This is an awesome project!
Great
SUPERB !!! I’d like a tour of the Canadian Maritimes. Thank you.
Nice❤️❤️❤️❤️
How about the Sacramento river and the complexity of the delta? Good work!!
The Deep Fin Squid was a very surprising detail lol. This map is extraordinarily cool, especially for someone who lives in a Mississippi River State (I live in Missouri). Did you experience any burnout in the 5 years it took to make this map?
You are incredibly cool for this Anton!!!
Inspiring stuff. Looking forward to the next tour... (Enjoyed your music too.)
Could you please address all of the nuclear sites you have included in a video? I recently received the map and found it fascinating how many legacies of the atomic age that are displayed within. Cheers!
Thanks for your efforts! The video was so informative! I’ve for so long admired the diversity and richness of the American landscape. Mark Twain’s novels, Martin Luther King’s Dream and Abraham Lincoln’s speeches, among others, are what inspired me most to dig into the history and geography of a nation as grand as the US. Now the next step is to plan a trip from Morocco, where I live, across this country once the pandemic is over. Anyone in? 🙂🙂
So glad I found you via the NY Times/Sam Sifton ... America is such a beautiful country... makes you realize just how awesome America is. The geography and the people. So enjoyed every moment because of your concise narration and explanations of the geography. Maps are the ultimate tour guide. Your cartography is so well drawn - similarity to Edward Tufte's 'Visual Display of Quantitative Information' (Charles MInard) . Especially liked your comment about talent - wasted if you're not using it... Suggestion for future maps - New York through New England - old major roads- Boston Post Road, the Broadway - incorporating canals, as well. Looking forward to your next video... and THANKS !
Beautiful America..Very talented artist I really enjoyed watching your video thank you very much..very interesting..I'm from NZ🇳🇿 & although I have never visited the states. I've always been fascinated & interested in learning a great deal about the different states..I even have a map of USA🇺🇲 in my gallery on my phone, just in case🤣The music was Kool to..Haven't heard the blues for a while..Kool bro thankyou.👍
Amazing work! Congratulations for the effort! 👏🏻👏🏻
Hi Anton! Here ia Keila (Instagram) Karioka de Sampa 🦋
love your vids bro
Do I-95 :)
Really enjoying these video tours, specially with the great music in the background and your personal comments. My ideas for future tours would be holidays and UNESCO World Heritage Sites. I've noticed at least two Día de Muertos skulls in Mexico, I think Punxsutawney Phil is somewhere too, and a Thanksgiving turkey if I remember correctly. I think a tour through the holidays represented in the map would be a good way to showcase the cultural diversity of North America. World Heritage Sites might be a big one, but it could also be a series with separate entries for the cultural, natural and mixed sites.
Wonderful! Thank you!
Very much enjoyed the tour down the Mississippi. I agree with a comment below about an exploration of the Appalachian Mountain (hiking) Trail which runs from Maine to Georgia.
Great tour, the detail on the map is incredible! Can you do the hudson river (maybe including the great lakes and erie canal) or the atlantic coast? Lots of history there.
Great! Appreciate NYT providing the link to this lovely video!
Wonderful! You had so many details that made it so special. Thank you!
How about, for your next project, the Appalachian trail?
Terrific artistry in your mapmaking and a captivating tour of a great world river--thank you for all of that! Rivers and highways are quintessential ways to tour the continent, so you may consider a motoring tour along U.S. Highways 1, 101, and any of the east-west highways (20/30/40).
Enjoyed. Do the Pacific Crest Trail. Runs from Mexico to the Northern Calif. border.
Impressive website! Wonderful work. Great music. You're a wonder! Melbourne is pretty great, too.
What a loving visual tribute to America! Like any good artist, you help us see the familiar anew. Thanks!
Loved it, especially at the moment when we can't travel
This was amazing. What's the building beneath the double-s in Missouri at 8:06? Can't wait for the next installment. Northern Canada?
Thank you! That is the "Ha Ha Tonka castle" - the ruins of a castle on the Lake of the Ozarks.
Being a fan of pencil artwork, geography and Atlas Obscura-type information, this was an excellent tour! It's really great to have many of the map symbols explained by the artist - you've enlightened me on a number of fascinating details. I think whatever tour you choose to take us on next will be great but one idea might be to follow a species migratory path for perhaps the monarch butterfly, caribou or sand hill crane, for example.
Thanks so much Marjorie. I love the idea of a tour following the migratory path of animals. There are so many across the map, that it could work well. Following the monarch butterflies from central Mexico to Ontario would be really cool.
Love your map, love this Mississippi River tour. Always finding something new on this epic map!
Love this map! Perfect companion to Francis Parkman's "La Salle and the discovery of the Great West" (www.gutenberg.org/files/40143/40143-h/40143-h.htm). It chronicled the 17th c. paddling by the French explorer from Québec via Great Lakes down the Mississippi all the way to the Gulf. He actually claimed the entire mid-continent in the name of then French King Louis XIV, but he never made it back to France... so that y'all had a Limey (as in Brit) not French-fry beginning LOL
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/40143
What an awesome Geography of the Mississippi lesson! I bet geography teachers will show this to their students for years to come. It brings to mind the huge drawings that Erwin Raisz would make in his lectures at Harvard: he'd draw the landforms, show how they influenced settlement patterns, and then explain how the culture of the place developed from this history and landscape. You've done that beautifully in a fun, beautiful, accessible way. What I'd like to see next is a musical performance of the notes you've drawn around the map. Turn the camera to each of those musical lines and play a verse and chorus of each tune!
Thanks mate! So glad you enjoyed it. And any comparison to the great Raisz is a profound compliment, I appreciate it so much. As for filming a little of the musical performance itself, definitely something I'm considering!
This was so interesting, I am looking forward to the next one. Your explanations bringing the map alive😃
Dude, this was really great. Looking forward to the next installment!
Love it Anton and the story of detail really helps.
Awesome video Anton. Learnt so much and love delving into the amazing detail on your extraordinary illustrated map.
Love the video and your map!
Now an artist like this inventing a world like this th-cam.com/video/OLLp4MbXt98/w-d-xo.html would be..... Creative.... Or the entire planet drawn in this simple of a method might be awesome...... but probably not as worthy of selling as legitimate pieces of art like the maps in this North America video
do you have a list of the tools you use?? Paper type, pencils, magnifying lamp etc? Thanks BTW - Beautiful for thanks for sharing
That one blessed fridge in Montreal is gonna be a rare collector's item a few years from now. 🤍
The fridge was still in use until 2018 I believe, until it finally stopped running. While it is decommissioned now, it's still safe and intact in Montreal. Might have to draw a new fridge sometime.
I really respect you
This guy is so underrated, he need more recognition! As a geography lover, the map is amazing!
Would u draw a map of japan?
Yes, I would love to. I visited Japan in 2019 and love its geography and culture. It'd make a wonderful map. The big challenge for me (as an English speaker) is the labelling. Because my work is all hand-drawn, it isn't so easy to be flexible with labels. But once I determine how to offer prints in both Japanese and English, then I'll do it!
OMG
I can't wait for this to be available to purchase and I would like to suggest something from a teacher's perspective; I'd like to see a map that's not coloured, and that still needs to be redrawn, following your original, I don't even know if I'm making myself clear, but I can imagine students having one big one in the classroom and shading and colouring as they cover units in the lessons, bringing it to life little by little. Amazing work!