As the first few Hardy Boys novels have entered public domain this year, I was asked to create a map of the fictional town of Bayport in which the books are set. The map was to be used in an RPG game set around The Hardy Boys and their mystery-solving ways, so it was important that the map had everything the stories required! I read the first book in the series so that I had a general sense of how the town was laid out (and the tone of the stories), and I also recieved a plethora of notes from the people behind the commission, so plotting out the landscape wasn’t overly arduous. Below you can see some of the sketchwork that was behind the final ink drawing.