[On hold] Map Design Commissions!

Posted 6 years, 1 month ago (Edited 5 years, 1 month ago) by ElithianFox

These are on hold! If you'd like a waiting list slot, lemme know ;v;

Pinglist for when I open again:

  1. RueDoingThis
  2. Alphanix
  3. OrangeSocks

After revamping my own world's map, I've gotten a feeling that I wanna create more maps! So I'd love to open commissions for these, just for fun ;v; Does anyone still even need maps? Guess we'll see!



How does it work?

This is a very flexible type of commission, meaning that you can give me as many or as little details and I can work with those. Need a new map but have no ideas for the landmasses? Have an idea for a specific map but no means to create it? Anything in between? That's all stuff I can do!

  1. Below is a template with details I will need. What you fill in I will use, what you don't I will come up with myself. 
  2. Communication is very important as there are so many factors in making a map, and everyone likes their maps different! 
  3. I will regularly show WIPs, always when defining the main landmasses, after creating the country borders, and when colouring. 
  4. When the commission is done you will get the full size PSD/SAI file so that you can always edit it when you decide on changes.
  5. Should you require any changes to the map after a few months or years, I can always do so. Just be sure to hold onto your SAI or PSD file!



Examples

Open the images in new tab for full sized detail. These are all examples of various iterations of the same map of my own world but it's easy to design new landmasses, so these are mostly style examples! Colours, textures, borders, and labels can all be customised.


More aesthetic borderless map

updated_livian_map_by_elithianfox-d93m1i

erebus_final2_by_elithianfox-dc7s88q.png


Map with borders

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Very aesthetic map

_idea__map_of_life_by_freakphone-d5hwtlm



Prices

All of these prices can be haggled - I can also accept artwork of my characters or custom designs as payment, but understand that I'll be working on these for a good couple of hours so going much lower in monetary value would be a huge loss on my part! The prices are variable based on if I need to add labels, come up with country names myself, etc.

• Small - 1000 x 500 pixels - $5-$7

• Medium - 2000 x 1000 pixels - $8-$10

• Large - 3000 x 1500 pixels - $11-$14

• Larger sizes can be talked about if necessary



Interested? I'll need these details!

Necessary details

▶︎ Map size: S (1000x500) - M (2000x1000) - L (3000x1500)
▶︎ Am I designing a fraction of a continent, an entire continent, a couple of continents, or the entire world?:
▶︎ What map style? Modern, medieval, authentic, schematic, etc.?: 

▶︎ Country labels or no labels? If yes, do you have a list of countries that need to be added?:
▶︎ Do you want a lineless coloured version?:
▶︎ Do you want a version with drawn borders around the continents?:
▶︎ Do you want a version with drawn borders around the countries?: 

▶︎ Details that you definitely want me to incorporate:
▶︎ Is this a specific map idea you have or a new map I am making where I get free reign?: 


Optional details:
These details are all details you can leave open. They start off as pretty basic but eventually delve into much more specific details; if you don't know what a detail is I suggest just leaving it open!

▶︎ Desired map colours:
▶︎ Any specific font or font style for labels?:
▶︎ Number of countries:
▶︎ Specific number of/locations and sizes for continents?:
▶︎ List of specific countries, including their desired position and size: 

▶︎ Many or few islands + small/large/mixed islands?:
▶︎ Large or small continents?:
▶︎ Lakes and seas inside continents?:
▶︎ Rivers drawn on the continents?: 

▶︎ Number of mid-oceanic ridges:
▶︎ Number of hotspot-based island groups:
▶︎ Realistic country borders based on most likely location of mountain ranges?: 

▶︎ Would you like my advice on the most likely geological and geographic features based on the final product?:
▶︎ Any other important details you'd like to mention?: 



Some rules

▶︎ You're allowed to upload the finished product anywhere, including your art gallery, if clearly credited to my TH and my dA (both ElithianFox).

▶︎ You can use these maps for any end, including commercial purposes like publishing them in a book. However, if commercial, please do contact me if you want to use my own drawing to arrange a price!

▶︎ I have the right to upload the map with credit to you as the commissioner and use it in my portfolio or as an art example. If you'd like this commission to stay off the internet, make sure to let me know beforehand.

▶︎ I work at my own speed, meaning these can take up to a month to complete. The more changes I need to make, the longer these can take. Please keep that in mind.

▶︎ I won't do things like draw on little village buildings and forests and other little drawings on the map. I simply don't know how to draw them, sorry! If you give me a brush pack in PS, I can still add them that way.

tori34

Excuse me fine cartographer, may I speak with you? ;)

leyline

ElithianFox HECK YES I would love one of these! Could I please grab a slot and message you the deets in a bit? :D 

ElithianFox

tori34 You can ;)

leyline Absolutely! Feel free to PM me the details anytime :D

RueDoingThis

Oooo would you be able to do one of a region? With specific towns and locations?

ElithianFox

RueDoingThis Do you mean an area on a landlocked map showing no continents surrounded by seas, but rather a map focusing on a much smaller area with roads and town locations and for example different counties? If that's the case, I can also do that, though it might be more experimental terrain for me!

Emy

*prays* please still be open later when I check back on this because I desperately need a map but I also haven't properly named most of my locations

ElithianFox

Emy It's absolutely still open at the moment, and most likely will remain open for some time after!

Emy

*crawls back in* You wouldn't happen to have a Discord, would you? It would make communication a whole lot faster. (I'm finally figuring out all of my map stuff and it's... Intense. At one point I pulled out 60 random names to use for places and oooh. Oooh ow. Ouch.) I'll probably send you a message in the next few days. If not the next few hours. Maybe the next few hours. I'm surprisingly energized to gather up all the junk that's accumulated over the years.

Edit: I'm gonna need a lot of maps, actually. Oof.

ElithianFox

Putting these on hold for now due to interest so that I can better focus on current commissions. Everyone I approved is on the list! If you'd like me to ping you when I open again, do lemme know ^^

ElithianFox

Finished the first map for tori34!

erebus_final2_by_elithianfox-dc7s88q.png

OrangeSocks

While I don’t know if or when this will open again, these look really cool! I’ve been wanting help with a map for a while and will be on the lookout for an opening ^^

ElithianFox

OrangeSocks Eyy, I am happy you're interested! I want to completely finish my to do list first before I take on any more work, so I estimate it may take between one and three months before I open again. I could ping you when I open again, if you wish? <:

ElithianFox

Alphanix Added you to the pinglist!

OrangeSocks

ElithianFox That would be great, thank you!