Yesterday, I posted that I received my order of 3 50-sheet pads of the same isometric paper that +Dyson Logos says he uses.

I finally got my home office where I can use my flatbed scanner again and scanned my first doodles using this paper.

I drew some shapes that I can see, and had a realization that a 3-D cube drawn in 2-D is a hexagon with a triskelion-like set of lines in the middle, that divides it into thirds. Thus, I drew two connected hexes, like on a map.

My expectation was that it was perforated paper, but it has a glue binding along the top and you just tear off the whole sheet, so the entire black line label is repeated on every sheet. this is not a problem, just something to be aware of.

My initial impressions were that the paper was slick, but it holds ink well. I did not smudge test it with fresh ink, so I don’t know how much it will smudge.

I did find that one has to get used to isometric paper and start with pencil to get the placement of items before resorting to ink.

I like how my stairs turned out for my first effort, in spite of having things not quite right. I made a mostly 3-D looking raised star, after I goofed my first attempt.

The last thing I tried was a tower with a smaller tower on top of it. I need to work on perspective of the little touches I added for battlements, but it isn’t bad for a quick try out.

The blue lines and dots did not entirely fade away, but someone with skill with a graphics program should be able to clean those up fairly easily.

The last thing I see, is that I need to either really slow down and make my lines look straighter, or use a straight edge. Again, like most things, practice brings improvement. I have not done a lot of map making for a long time. Now that I am working from home, I can use slow periods or conference calls to work on map ideas.

Below are different pictures using my cell phone.