@iLykCoffee Done.
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If I find a cool location on Mapcrunch, but Street View doesn’t have a good view of a certain street that I want, is it okay to find another picture of that street to reference, or is that contrary to the spirit of the challenge?
@Pfblakeney The spirit of the challenge is to use a scene found on the street view apps. You mentioned Map Crunch didn’t have the view of the street you wanted… did you try going to that street in Google Maps? Unlike Map Crunch, it let’s you move up and down the streets and rotate for 360 view. 
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No, I looked on Maps, and the angle just isn’t right… It’s okay though, I still have found plenty of other locations to try to paint.
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@edgarej Not sure if I understand what you’re saying. A landscape isn’t mandatory… anything you can view on the map street view is fine. You can find theaters and zoom in on their venues for movie posters?
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I noticed that too about the angle. I think it’s because the Google camera is mounted pretty high on top the vehicle. Have you tried clicking on the blue dots in street view? They usually have a better angle at eye level. Many are inside buildings.
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@Corentin sooz wants us to post links instead of screenshots of our references. I don’t have the link of the first plein air I started unfortunately.
@Elixiah Corentin likes doing movie poster illustrations, which typically features characters and not landscapes. I was trying to help Corentin out by inspiring him with movie posters with landscapes in it, but came up short. Google search instead gave me movie posters in the landscape format instead of giving me movie posters OF landscapes.
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@edgarej is your plein air a totally random place? You don’t know where it is? Because otherwise it shouldn’t be complicated to find it back… 
Thanks for the intention but it really wouldn’t help me. A landscape stays a landscape, whether or not on a movie poster, and how do you parody it? It would be off topic for this month anyway. But don’t worry, I’ll find something I like… When I start working on it! 
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The street that I had found is inside a small French village, where even the blue dots don’t reach. 
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@Corentin Just a reminder… it doesn’t have to be a landscape at all. There are thousands of street views that go inside buildings and markets and crowds of people. Maybe find a closeup view of a movie poster inside a theater or on a marquee?
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Yeah, don’t worry @Elixiah, I’m sure I’ll find something I like! 
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But I’ve been able to do that with every MapCrunch location I’ve looked at. 
The main thing that annoys me is it rarely gives enough information to know where you are in the world, and you can’t switch to map like on Google.
@Corentin Maybe have look at vintage railway posters if you want examples of more graphic style landscapes:
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Aaaaaaaaah! 
Why does everyone want to feed me with landscapes all of a sudden? I don’t need any help guys, I’m OK!
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I thought that plein air i started in January was from mapcrunch… it turns out it was from pexels.com. I would have no idea how to find the street.
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Google image search and some digging helped me find all my mapcrunch locations
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@edgarej Can’t find the street on Google Maps search?
I’m gonna do a series of quick maps images, then settle on one or two to finish out a bit. I’d like to explore some colorful NYC views to sketch too. I feel like it’s good practice to do quick, loose paintings. For me anyway
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I have the city but I don’t have the street name. The city was mentioned on pexels, but not the exact street. Again, like I mentioned, the source wasn’t mapcrunch, it was from pexels.com.
Here was my reference for the plein air I started last January;
https://www.pexels.com/photo/30345888/
If you guys feel like sleuthing where this location is, go for it 
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wait… i just realized couldn’t i just used the photo from pexels as the source? do I have to use mapcrunch or google maps for the reference?
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