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In order to do so, pick up a few of the drawing supplies in Figure 3-1, at least graph paper, tracing paper, a good ruler, a pencil, and an eraser. More complicated drawing tools help you keep your lines straight and maintain consistent sizes for the elements of your landscape, but they aren’t essential to drawing a useful map.

We recommend that you use graph paper for making this base plan, which has a printed grid of squares that makes transferring real-life elements to a flat piece of paper much easier. You can, for example, use a 1-foot to ¼-inch ratio — a 1-foot-long line in real life covers ¼ inch on graph paper; a 4-foot-line is an inch on graph paper, a 20-foot-long line in real life extends 5 inches on graph paper (for those of you who use metric graph paper and measurements, you can use similar ratios) and so on. If you need to, tape sheets of graph paper together to get everything in.

With all your supplies in hand, you’re ready to draw.