Prompt: Draw a city from above from memory.

The first location I drew was OSU’s North Campus. I lived there for two years, so my memory of it was fairly accurate.

A screen capture from Google Earth is shown above for comparison. I also drew a map of my hometown in the style of Kathy Prendergast. The area right near where I lived is almost perfect, but the accuracy declines rapidly the further away from home I drew. This exercise was very nostalgic; it brought back a lot of memories from my childhood. I drew the grassy median strip where I played baseball with a foam ball and plastic bat, the house of one of my best friends, an alleyway where I fell off my bike and gashed my knee. It’s sad to see that, despite living there for twelve years, the neighborhood is already starting to fade from my memories.