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    Map Fillory (commission)

    My completed map of Fillory, the Narnia-esque world-within-a-world from Lev Grossman’s The Magicians series. This was done as a commission so I’ve had to keep it hidden until my client gave it as a wedding gift (I printed it on canvas for her), thus no WIP thread. I had some fun with the copyright info, since Fillory is the creation of a fictional author within the series. I haven’t read the books (yet) so I relied on the map available on Grossman’s website but added my own touches. I did a lot of Googling to figure out which doodads to add, like the buttons, rabbits, and moth.

    This was hand-drawn and colored in Photoshop on a Wacom Intuos tablet. The font is Enchanted Land. I'm particularly happy with how the fabric underneath the magical buttons turned out, since I still feel like I struggle with drawing "real" things.

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    A lovely map and a great gift, Aeshnidae. I especially love the border here.
    It's always special to work on wedding-related commissions !

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    Ah! This is what you've been up to.

    Congrats on the commission.

    It has a dreamy feel to it. Really nice.

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    Very nice piece aeshnidae. Congratz on commission !
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    I've been watching that show on Amazon Prime, thinking I would despise it for various reasons, but have been totally hooked.

    That is a pretty cool wedding gift I hope they liked it

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    Quote Originally Posted by MistyBeee View Post
    A lovely map and a great gift, Aeshnidae. I especially love the border here.
    It's always special to work on wedding-related commissions !
    Thanks! I actually did the border for this map first (because I wanted it to look like the Narnia border from my childhood books) and then ported it over to use on my Camelot map. And a map of Ireland that I made for my mom's 70th birthday, which I will post once I give it to her. (We're not even the tiniest bit Irish but she has a book of Irish fairy & folk tales from when she was a little girl, and she loves it.)

    I was really happy to work on a wedding gift! Apparently the whole wedding party bonded over The Magicians.

    Quote Originally Posted by XCali View Post
    Ah! This is what you've been up to.

    Congrats on the commission.

    It has a dreamy feel to it. Really nice.
    Thanks, XCali! This is sadly just a tiny, enjoyable piece of what I've been up to lately. What's kept me super duper busy is lawyering. Which I enjoy, but not when it's 70+ hours per week on a state employee salary!

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    Very nice piece aeshnidae. Congratz on commission !
    Thanks, Voolf! It was my first "real" commission, for a client I don't know rather than for friends or acquaintances.

    Quote Originally Posted by Falconius View Post
    I've been watching that show on Amazon Prime, thinking I would despise it for various reasons, but have been totally hooked.

    That is a pretty cool wedding gift I hope they liked it
    Apparently the bride and groom loved it! I didn't realize the show is available on Amazon. Now I'm torn...read the books first, or watch the show first? Usually I read the books first but Amazon knows me far too well and has tempted me with many Kindle books available for $2 or less, so I have a significant number of unread books sitting on my Kindle.

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    Very pretty, congrat on commission !

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    Very nice work. I love those books!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tenia View Post
    Very pretty, congrat on commission !
    Thank you!

    Quote Originally Posted by ChickPea View Post
    Very nice work. I love those books!
    Thanks, ChickPea! Creating this map made me want to read the books.

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