Love my work? It’s time to take it to the next level by commissioning your own custom piece of artwork. Commissioning me will get you a digital copy of your map suitable for print or use on the web.

Inquiries are always free and no obligation.

     

Commission a Custom Map

Contact me with the following information to either discuss your idea or work out a quote.

• A sketch. Sketches do not need to be artistically “good”. They only need to tell me where you would like things located. You may create a sketch with words, post-it notes, a spreadsheet, cereal spread on a pan…

  

• The required print size of the finished piece.
• Black and white, lineart, color and style preferences.
• Open Street Maps screenshot or satellite imagery, if needed.
• List of place names, if needed.
• Any images you find that help you visualize your world.
• If for a written project, ei: a story, Dungeons and Dragons campaign, or other roleplaying campaign, descriptive sections of writing that would help me visualize your world.
• Your budget.
• Your timeline. I am occasionally available for rapid turnaround commissions, but the offered price quote will reflect the speed.
• Unsatisfied by how little information is contained in this list? I made a list of even more things! Cheat sheet of more information you could send me to get your custom fantasy map quote!
• Link to any of my existing maps that have a style you like. Fantasy map portfolio. Real world map portfolio. City, Town, Campground, Event, and Dungeon map portfolio.

Overwhelmed by how much information there is? Ignore all of it and send me a doodle and the words “make it prettier, here’s my budget.” Some people enjoy the discourse and others don’t and it’s fine for you to be either way.

 

More information on getting a custom fantasy map.

An email exchange with me will involve me asking some questions about your work. If you choose to work with me, only after a sketch is complete is any payment expected. I can be contacted through the form in the sidebar or via my social media links which can be found under about. I have Discord too (_Ti_).

I usually answer initial client emails within a day or two. A quote is free, and all quotes are negotiable. I will do lower cost art in exchange for you not receiving exclusive ownership of the final art. Rights and needs for your art can be discussed in an email as this varies from project to project.

I accept payment via Paypal, Stripe or for my Canadian clients, interac E-transfer. Arrangements can be made for alternative payment. My standard policy is 50% non-refundable down payment after the sketch is satisfactory, and then the remainder once the map is completed.

Everyone has the same question at this point.

How Much Does it Cost to get a Custom Map Commission

I work with clients of many types. Non-professionals wanting a map for their Dungeons and Dragons, Pathfinder, or other roleplaying game. Indie authors wanting a map for their fantasy or speculative fiction novel. Homebrew game makers. Students requiring art for a school project. Professional industry creators. Producers of well known novels, games, card games, board games, and film. Large print posters and high end art pieces. I charge industry appropriate prices for turnaround speed, print size, and detail. Whatever your project budget, don’t hesitate to contact me. It’s difficult to project because a small half page map for an independent novel publication is simply not the same scale of project as a poster sized painting for a large commercial project, both in intensity of art and in the production needs of the client. Because of that I do not provide a menu, I provide a quote based on your unique project’s needs.

You can expect my rates to fall into the following range. My rates usually begin at $150 and reach into the four digits. My highest rates for projects have been large multi-map projects with extensive labour involved, and the lower rates are for people who need a bread and butter single map. Occasionally a very simple map will be cheaper than this range. I estimate my rate based on $35 an hour. I add an additional fee for commercial rights arrangements.

Edits to an existing map begin at $10 for text-based changes.

Contacting me for a quote is no-obligation. I will give you a concrete answer based on your unique needs.

But here are some ballpark ranges for common types of maps!

Many of the maps I make are for independent writers. Novel maps are quoted between $150 to $450, depending on the size of your print, the number of icons, the unique complexities of your map, and the rights needed.

Some of the maps I make are simple battle stages for TTRPG modules. These maps are charged based on the number of squares required, and if the assets can come from a standard pack versus requiring the creation of unique asset packs. Assets are created at a rate of around $10-$50, depending on complexity. High price assets might be like, a large monster and a low price asset might be like, an adventurer NPC or a unique chair. Asset packs may be cheaper if you don’t want to own them and are simply sponsoring me to create them as a Roll20 pack.

Simple black and white OSR maps that are less than a single page for print and focused solely on being a room or dungeon layout with minimal assets are priced at $50-$150.

Complex color, asset-heavy maps intended for use on virtual tabletops will be higher rates.

A city map is one of the more complex commissions that I can take on. Prices are quoted based on if a map is streets only versus a color map with illustrated buildings, and if it’s from directly above or in an isometric view.

Street maps start at $200.

Top-down building maps, such as the very popular concentric rings style of map, start at $300.

Isometric maps start at $500.

Here are examples of what that means.

These are top-down buildings and streets map:

This is a streets-only map. Street maps can be created from any real world location or fictional.

This is an isometric city map, where you can see the fronts and sides of buildings.

A vector space map poster is medium complexity and starts at $250 for a solar system focused map, with an additional fee of $50-$150 per inset.

Simple space battlemaps created with my DungeonDraft space assets may only be $75 for a scene.

Your map may not be anything like anyone has ever asked for before, and I welcome your challenging conceptual map, but can give you no idea of what it will cost without you speaking to me.

How Long Does it Take

Technically, it might take a few hours.

I prefer to book commissions with at least a month of turnaround time, and a minimum of two weeks. I book positions on my queue up to a year in advance. I only take fast turnaround commissions for clients who have commissioned me successfully at least once before.

This time permits opportunity for us to talk and brainstorm, for you to have editing rounds, and for me to envision the map in my mind before I set out to create it as part of my process.

COMMISSION Custom Concept Art

Love my vision and think I could bring something exciting to your world? Conceptional art inquiries do not need to come with a complete vision. We’ll spitball and idea and I’ll sketch it and then develop it. Or you can have an extensive vision! Things you may want to include in your email are as follows.

• Print sizes, if needed.
• Budget.
• Timeline.
• What the project is intended to become.
• Any sample images for style, color, or inspiration.
• Written descriptions or ideas.
• Even more information you could send me to get your custom fantasy map quote!

COMMISSION Custom Comic art

My webcomic is at Stargazer’s Gate. I am available for components of comic art.

• Pencils to finished lineart
• Flatting / flat color work on pre-inked pages.
• Setting up color schemes, palettes and color consultation.
• Lettering and speech bubble placement.
• Matte / large prepainted backgrounds for you to do your own cartooning over top.
• Complete coloring of comic inks, comic colorist work.
• Creating a unique font for your comic. (example of the font I made for mine in the banner!)

Commission a Layout Work

• $15 a page for pages with complex rules tables, $10 a page for pages with text and images and $5 a page for only text on a TTRPG module or brochure. Novel layouts can be priced lower, given the text requires much less pushing around than a TTRPG module.

Commission a World Building Consulting Session

• We talk on Discord or Zoom, I charge $35 an hour. Must be scheduled at least a week in advance. This work will also involve a deliverable writeup if I read something you wrote to give feedback on your worldbuilding.

Commission a Book Cover

• Starts at $300 for a scenery painting, $100 per character, $50 for text only.

but i feel bad about my sketch still…

Behold, Tiffany’s first map drawn at the age of 16. Seriously, you don’t have to draw anything if you don’t want to, I’ll figure out how to extract the information out of you somehow. ^_^ That might sound painful but I promise, it’s usually not that hard. A little time consuming, but not hard! We’ll do it together! You might not be used to collaborative work but I am, I do it every day, and I know just how to guide you through the steps to getting your dream map.

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