As some of you know I am writing a couple of fantasy novels and I might self publish them. I still need some cover art though. What is a good place to meet people who do commissions, other than Deviantart?
As some of you know I am writing a couple of fantasy novels and I might self publish them. I still need some cover art though. What is a good place to meet people who do commissions, other than Deviantart?
Check out my City Designer 3 tutorials. See my fantasy (city) maps in this thread.
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What about ConceptArt.org?
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Though there's only a dozen or so artist's posting work at Dementia 5 Publishing, the place I'm doing Kaidan through - all my illustrators are from that site. I got good deals on prices for work, so it might be worth checking out.
Dementia 5 site click on the Community, then visit Art Forum.
GP
Gamer Printshop Publishing, Starfinder RPG modules and supplements, Map Products, Map Symbol Sets and Map Making Tutorial Guide
DrivethruRPG store
Artstation Gallery - Maps and 3D illustrations
Posting in the http://www.conceptart.org/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=12 area of concept art is a good way to get a lot of responses.
Equally, you'll get a good response from rpg.net:
http://forum.rpg.net/forumdisplay.php?f=12
It's also worth looking through the guys on the artorder blog and seeing how much they charge - you certainly get a good idea of the skill level from the weekly challenges:
http://artorder.blogspot.com/
Are you that close to finishing or just thinking ahead?
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Thanks for the quick responses so far, guys. I will check out all the links.
Check out my City Designer 3 tutorials. See my fantasy (city) maps in this thread.
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Well, I haven't given up on a regular publisher. I haven't even sent in a manuscript yet
Philipstephen: you are right that in the case I would land a publisher they would want to pick out the cover.
Right now I am looking at a small print run for some friends and family (a private project through Lulu.com, so no one can order the novel from their site, only me - I have done this for book 1 already). I designed the cover myself and I suck at it. I want something better and am willing to spend a couple of hundred dollars on it. This is a hobby for me and I would love to have some professional looking books on my shelf, just so I can pick them up and say: "I wrote them". I never started writing these books because I wanted to reach a large audience, but I will try.
I will start thinking about what kind of cover I want first, before I blunder about
Thanks for the pointers Torst-San!
Oh, and for everyone working on their maps: I started writing first and had book 1 finished by the time I started on the first map. A map is great to have but you can spend ages tweaking it and you will get delayed/side-tracked. Watch out for that pitfall
(I made the later mistake of mapping lots of the cities in my world )
Last edited by Gandwarf; 09-28-2009 at 05:12 PM.
Check out my City Designer 3 tutorials. See my fantasy (city) maps in this thread.
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Why don't you make it a competition here? Might be fun to see what comes up!