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Legend of Zelda Maps


Year Completed: 2009
Made By: Cadet
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Description
A hand drawn map from the Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. The map was hand drawn on regular copy paper, inked with a suitable waterproof pen, and then weathered using tea, coffee, and black acrylic paint.
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Step 1
First lay out your paper and decide how old and how messed up you want it to look. Second, trim the edges of the paper uneveningly, this will allow you to make it look worn when you are done. Once finished, lay the document on the cookie sheet so it is face up.
Step 2
Now take your art paint brush and liberally apply tea into the creases and in random areas that stains would look good. Important, let the tea pool. For my map I added a creases to the map, so I let the tea pool especially heavy in the crease. I did this because if you look at old documents they tend to be darker in creased areas.
Step 3
Now put the cookie sheet with the document on it into the preheated oven for 5-10 minutes, watch it carefully as you want the tea to just dry enough to set in. This is important as this is your foundation for aged paper. Once the tea has dried, pull out the cookie sheet and place it back in your work area. It will now look something like this:
Step 4
Now comes the fun part. Using the tea bag saturate the whole document. Do not let the teabag dry out or break as this creates a real mess. In some aging you do use the tea leaves, but for this one I did not want to. The picture does not show it, but this paper is very saturated in some places it is actually soaked through.
Step 5
Once again place the cookie sheet in the oven and watch it carefully. between 5-15 minutes the tea will dry and the document will start to yellow and get wrinkly looking. Pull it out when it is 95% dry
Step 6
Still not satisfied with the color, I continued to saturate and dry the map.
Step 7
Rinse and repeat
Step 8
Until I was happy with the results.
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