Classic fantasy mapmaking request - continent, provinces and cities

[damonjynx]

Yes, as others have said, unless you're extremely fortunate to find an artist who wants to experiment with a new style/genre or whatever, I doubt you would get ANYONE to do what you're asking for the price stated. At best someone may do it for a couple of hundred $$ + a royalty on sold pieces. I was fortunate to strike a deal with one of the cartographers here where we split the profit on sales and unfortunately, neither of us made much money but he did get to experiment with a couple of different styles and try a new kind of map (to him) and I only had the rights to a single document.

If you're not willing to pay the $$ or simply can't afford it, you maybe better off creating your own maps. There are numerous tutorials here and on YouTube along with open source software, such as GIMP for example, that will teach how to create virtually any style of map you may require reasonably quickly and to a publishable standard. The folk here are very generous and positive with their advice, critiques and suggestions to help you on your way. I wish you the best of luck.

[Evil_DM]

Hi everybody,

thanks for getting me back to reality...

I admit that I am not very much 'in tune' with the realities of the Cartographers Guild. In my mind, I always thought it it was a group of hobbyists, of which some could make money out of their handywork. Apparently, there are quite a few pro's here. My bad. I stand corrected. Mea culpa.

So, I'll have to rethink my proposition...

I am willing to change my request to 100's of dollari, and perhaps lower the amount of work needed. Also, perhaps important (as someone pointed out) the level of detail that I expect is not exceptionally high.

I would prefer to have in a first tranche, the continent and 2 of the provinces, and 2-3 cities. For the cities too, not much detail is needed, just where the important locations and institutions are.

Is this a more workable request then?

Ps: many thanks for the very polite way in which you all 'educated' me, there are quite a few fora where you get grilled a lot worse for 'not being in tune'