Drawing a coastline by hand
A morning at Priya Raman’s board, watching a coastline arrive one inlet at a time.
Enova Studio
1 min read
Video: “Osher Map Library: Hand Drawn Maps” by PMC Watch on YouTube, licensed under CC BY 3.0.
Four hours compressed into seven minutes, which is the wrong ratio for the subject but the right one for a film. She does not speak much while drawing.
What is in it
- 00:45 Setting up: paper, weights, and three inks.
- 02:20 The first inlet, at real speed.
- 04:30 A mistake, and what she does about it.
- 06:10 The finished stretch, and what she left out.
Made with
- One overhead rig
- A 50mm lens
- No artificial light at all
She has since told me the coastline is wrong by about forty metres, and that this is fine.
