Question for Retro Track Creators

For your updated versions of retros, do you do heavily edit the actual minimaps, or do you just freehand the track's shape & it just comes out perfect somehow? I'm contemplating pinging the "usual suspects" on this, hopefully they'll just see.

I freehand them—I think my best one is Lakeside Park

I didn’t really like the Tour layout (and I usually use the Tour layouts for my GBA remakes) so I made a slightly more complex equivalent, and it came out pretty good!

Wow, your hand is really steady.
I think I'm too twitchy to freehand(doesn't help that I don't have a mouse anymore & this touchpad is bugging out)
Thank you for your response though!

My PC sucks so I just use my iPad to draw a shape, and then I straighten it up.

I always start with a base though.

I do the same (for DS tracks thought i use the minimaps

I have made only one retro so far (Mario Kart Stadium), so I'll tell how I made it:

I picked a map of it, made some lines in the shape of the layout, then pasted QM pieces in places I thought it needed, just to keep a consistent road widht (also important that whenever I thought the Track was small, I would make it bigger), then I started making the road, after, I remembered I wanted to make it in the SMK/MKSC style, so I had to put the cube walls, which made me remake some bits of the road. That's all, the rest was just making the Track look good

Usually i start with the original minimap, on the case that im just doing a port i try to keep everything as the original, but on remakes, i start with the base layout and then on a new layer i do some changes (and sometimes i draw the layout on paper to dont forget the idea bc im super lazy lol)