Looking For City Cartographers for my World

[Wired]

Hi Kuragiman,

I've done a handful of city maps and would be interested in this task. I am an experienced freelancer and have worked with a large number of authors, game publishers and Kickstarter projects before. You can find my maps and references at Foreign Worlds Cartography or by simply clicking the image in my signature below.

If you like what you see, shoot me an email at mail@foreignworlds.net

best regards,
Sebastian of Foreign Worlds Cartography

[Tiana]

Here are a couple of samples of recent city maps (I haven't updated my fantasy map portfolio in a while.

A color experiment with a 3D program to make the base.
Falkreach-roads-color-text-small.jpg
Historical map for non-fiction:
rome roads edits.jpg
Places of significance for a romantic couple gift print:
kenny-shanghai.jpg

I always allow for some time to bounce ideas around. Literally anything can be changed and I'm pretty good at providing the right stages for you to have creative input without causing me undue editing stress. Things like "I draw a block of buildings" rather than "all the buildings". I would say the average amount of emails exchanged is around 30-35 (total, not each) to create one map, with a few of those being initial conversation, and the rest being a back and forth of collaborative creation. I've noticed it evens out at around that point unless the map is very small or the client is more of a 'sit back and see what happens' sort of person, in which case it might end up finished in 3-4 rounds. There's no point where it's just like 'and now the entire owl is drawn'.

Well. Except for the initial base of a world map. I always put on a texture for the whole thing, and all of the borders and waterways. Which is entirely changeable, it's just I've found that if I send a real concept sketch, people fixate on things like "so are you going to put it on a parchment texture?" "Remember there has to be a lake there." and I consider that to be a waste of their time.

Anyway, I'd be interested in talking to you about it, getting to know your world a bit better, what kind of style you might like to see, what information you want conveyed. Since you want to use them as campaign worldbuilding pieces, I'm sure you have many facts you know about these cities written down you could share to get started, as well as your own overland maps, and you can send me as much as you want.

That said, if you can make an overland map you can make a city map. They are, arguably, much harder but the techniques still apply. So y'know, don't give up on the idea of making them yourself if you ever do find the time, I bet you'd find yourself more capable than you imagine. But yes, time is required, and if that's not there, I can see why you'd want to outsource them. If you want to make this happen, you can email me at calthyechild at gmail dot com.