Playing around with this Sketches app on my iPad, today’s goal was a to learn how to “trace” something by hand. But what? I needed something simple to start.

The Colorado River snaking its way through my city of Austin, Texas came to mind for its irregular curves. Using a Maps screenshot of Austin and layers in the Sketches app with my nifty new  Pencil, I got a rough but realistic hand-drawn shape of the river.

Then I used the app’s ruler, fill, and text tools to make a quick, fun sketch of my town by neighborhood.

Here’s the project with the Maps screenshot layer shown.