British artist Ed Fairburn creates amazing hand-drawn portraits using old road maps and charts as his canvases.

bic biro drawing on a antique map

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Portrait on city map

With the invent of GPS technology and map applications, paper maps are waning in use - but they are an essential material to English artist Ed Fairburn, who uses them as the canvas of his detailed portraits. Fairburn's work is an imaginative incorporation of the human form and topography. He's used maps of places from all over the world. The winding layouts of streets and rivers are enhanced to form wrinkles, veins, and other features of his subjects' faces.

For my project I need to find relevant street maps and recreate them in a interesting, artistic way. It should depict how visitors see and experience the areas. Conventional maps can be very grey a…

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