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This image is actually entirely hand-illustrated by me, using this satelite photo map of the world as a reference
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along with a few other more proportionately-correct renderings of the earth (where Africa and South America are quite large, and Greenland should be smaller than Australia)- yet each continent retaining it's satelite-eye proportions (as maps must usually improvise twisting a spherical surface over a flat plane one way or another)

Long story short, having found myself regularly needing to depict the world map for various projects of mine, and although I could whip up a *reasonably* accurate map by hand and memory- I decided to bite the bullet (and give myself a nice challenge) of tracing the outlines of a proper map, and then painting in the rest of the details by hand (well, digital-pen-and-tablet to be precise)- even copying down any of the distinct swirls seen from the satelite images on the deserts.

I'd imagine there'd be a few errors and incomplete details (and not so photo-realistic details too)- but I actually decided to leave them in.
(It definitely can't be confused with a photographic copy-and-paste job)!

Description
This image is actually entirely hand-illustrated by me, using this satelite photo map of the world as a reference
[link]
along with a few other more proportionately-correct renderings of the earth (where Africa and South America are quite large, and Greenland should be smaller than Australia)- yet each continent retaining it's satelite-eye proportions (as maps must usually improvise twisting a spherical surface over a flat plane one way or another)

Long story short, having found myself regularly needing to depict the world map for various projects of mine, and although I could whip up a *reasonably* accurate map by hand and memory- I decided to bite the bullet (and give myself a nice challenge) of tracing the outlines of a proper map, and then painting in the rest of the details by hand (well, digital-pen-and-tablet to be precise)- even copying down any of the distinct swirls seen from the satelite images on the deserts.

I'd imagine there'd be a few errors and incomplete details (and not so photo-realistic details too)- but I actually decided to leave them in.
(It definitely can't be confused with a photographic copy-and-paste job)!