John Gillham
Award-winning travel/outdoor writer, illustrator and photographer
Above: The Northern Glyderau ridges and Nant Ffrancon from Best Day Walks in Snowdonia (pb Frances Lincoln)
Left: Eskdale in the Lake District from Long Days in Lakeland (pb Grey Stone Books)
Below right: Pillar Rock from Scrambles and Easy Climbs in the Lake District (pb Grey Stone Books)
All the sketches were drawn using Rotring Isograph pens with.18, ..25 and .35 nibs on either drafting film or CS10 paper. The 3D mapping uses the same but the artwork is then imported onto the computer using Photoshop and the Freehand MX drawing package Colour lines, captions and fills are then added.
Wastwater
The Folly, Settle
Friar’s Crag, Derwentwater
Reeth
Below are drawings taken from the Bowland-Dales Traverse and Lakeland Mountain Challenges (Grey Stone Books)