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Ifrix @ifrix.bsky.social · 5d

A recently commissioned map of a private client's D&D world for their upcoming campaign.

The main themes of the world were the balance of light and dark and of exploring ancient magitech ruins, something I incorporated into the border.

Parchment style map showign a single continent in the centre with a variety of biomes. There is a border around the edge depicting an eclipse, gods of light and dark, and the ruins of a magitech city that is used to display the title of the world, Amavesh

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Ifrix @ifrix.bsky.social · 11d

Hope it's just a passing thing and things look up soon 🫂. Merlin wishes you all the best!

Photo of a 17 month old liver and white Springer Spaniel sitting on a picnic bench in front of an overgrown lawn

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Ifrix @ifrix.bsky.social · Sep 29

Working on a challenge map for the Cartographer's Guild
Challenging myself with some very different lighting and also sticking to the palette provided

A very orange mesa map featuring two suns which both hover very close to the ground, casting long shadows

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Ifrix @ifrix.bsky.social · Sep 9

Can now share my latest work for "The Godlands", a very strange region in a a TTRPG zine by Micah Abresch

Monochrome artwork of an unnatural landscape showing the domains of various gods

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Ifrix @ifrix.bsky.social · Aug 26

Hey Kat! I'm a queer Scottish illustrator and cartographer, so if you're looking for something in the vein of maps, large scope landscapes, or diegetic sketches I'd love to work with you!

Some examples below but more available on my artstation

Painterly style map of a forest with twisting patterss surrounding a a mountain circle with a meadow and golden tree within

Painterly style Underworld with a blue/yellow palette depicting a land with a strange perspective: mountains either side of a river that leads upwards to a vertical sea populated by a spiral of islands

Pencil sketch of a mountain range surrounded by scattered pages depicting sketches of dragons and draconic creatures

Pencil-sketch drawing of an crocodile headed humanoid. Roots and plant matter grow from their body. Above is text describing their habits and nature

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Ifrix @ifrix.bsky.social · Jul 25

Yeah that should definitely be doable! :D

Ifrix @ifrix.bsky.social · Jul 25

Would love to be an ARC reader as this seems right up my alley but not sure if I'll have time as I have quite a tight schedule over the next months. How many pages is it?

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Ifrix @ifrix.bsky.social · Jul 21

No cheating. Post the last pic of your pet.

Was a very warm day so Merlin enjoyed a swim in the river to cool off

A very wet, liver and white Springer Spaniel on a rocky river beach in the woods

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Ifrix @ifrix.bsky.social · Jun 19

Personally my favouritestyle of prompt has been from Thousand Year Old Vampire. If it's too vague I freeze up and can't think of something, but too detailed can often not fit.
I do like questions as they can make you look at a situation in a way you wouldn't have considered

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Ifrix @ifrix.bsky.social · Jun 5

It's a great handle, coming from another AP who's also a cartographer

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Ifrix @ifrix.bsky.social · May 31

2013 - 2024

Fuck 🖕 AI

Parchment map made in Paint.NET using Saderan brushes back in 2013

Remake of the previous map in a full colour, painterly style, made in Photoshop

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Ifrix @ifrix.bsky.social · May 20

Remove a letter, ruin a band

Meat Oaf

Laurence Datrier @asleepywanderer.bsky.social · May 20

Remove a letter, ruin a band

Skeleton itch

Physghoul 👻 @physgal.bsky.social · May 20

Remove a letter, ruin a band

Ears for Fears

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Ifrix @ifrix.bsky.social · Feb 28

[Marked sensitive due to arachnid features]
Last creature sketch for @markadamscraft.bsky.social , a Jorogumo. This one was particularly unsettling to work on and went through a few revisions of its Giger-esque features

A sketchbook page of a Joroguno, featuring a full body of the half woman, half spider creature and a separate sketch of the maw concealed on the underside of its abdomen

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Ifrix @ifrix.bsky.social · Feb 26

Hi! I'm a Scottish illustrator, cartographer, and pixel artist so, depending on the style and content, I'd love to hear more about the project!
My portfolio is here if you want to see if any of my styles would be suitable:
ifrix.artstation.com

Alastair Parkin

Freelance Cartographer and Pixel Artist

ifrix.artstation.com

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Juliana Xavier ✦✨🌻 @juliejubz.com · Dec 17

Fellow #cartography / #map makers who take commissions… would any of y’all be willing to talk to me through DMs in regards to what I’m quoting here 👀?

I would absolutely love to expand on my little study from this year, to include maps 🥺♥️ RP’s highly appreciated!

bsky.app/profile/juli...

Juliana Xavier ✦✨🌻 @juliejubz.com · Dec 2

By the way, at the beginning of this year I decided to do a study on how much artists charge for commissions. Essentially, I wanted to make sure my own prices were fair while also trying to help educate others.

So if anyone's interested, here's the study! I really hope it helps 💛✨ #CommissionInfo

Commission Price Average
— a small study —

Date: February 2nd, 2024

For the past 6-ish months l've been collecting commission posts by artists I both follow and or got retweeted into my Twitter feed, with the sole purpose of studying how much they charge and what would be fair to charge for my own commission prices once I start those up again.

I honestly have no idea if anyone else would find this interesting but I figured it could be a good thing to share anyway and to hopefully open the eyes of those charging too damn little because..... gods... I saw so many amazing artists charging too little...

As mentioned before... this little project was done to figure out what's fair in the terms of a BASE. Meaning that, you take that base and build on it. Don't price yourself at $66 for a fully rendered chibi if you think your chibis are worth $200. In the end I want everyone to make more money, not less! Gods know we work hard for it and are WORTH IT.

So yeah... good luck

Number of artists I looked through: about 75+ artists.

Pricing: all in USD (any prices from artists charging in different currencies were calculated for today's exchange rate — Feb 2nd 2024)

Criteria and notes: despite the fact I looked through 100's of artists, not all of them offer the same stuff. Which is why something like "twitch emotes" was only averaged through calculating 4 different prices, while "full body colored character" was averaged through almost a hundred prices...

I COULD have gone looking specifically for people who offer more emote commissions to get a better idea out of it, but that probably would have taken way more hours than I already put into this, so l think I'm good with this for my own purposes.

One of the hardest things about this is that artists have a variety of styles that sometimes don't seem to fit into the same category, when really, they do. Like, one artist will have prices for a fully rendered colored piece and it looks closer to being done in a cel-shading style with some rendering, vs an artist who does a painterly rendered style where you can see strokes everywhere! Neither of those artists are more or less deserving than the other, but it ends up being one of those things where I was left wondering, should I write down the price in the same category?

I tried my best to keep things as fair as possible, but in the end I'm also technically doing this out of my own curiosity and in search for "some kind of fairness" ... so uh... yeah, don't expect this to be
anywhere near perfect!

Discarding figures, Note: originally I had more than 100 artists picked, easily. But as I started going through everything, I discarded artists whose pricing was so low, it wasn't considered good unless you could get said commission done, in a few minutes, tops. I know some artists are INCREDIBLY fast... but who knows if that's why they had their prices so low.

• Sketch Com Colored — flats or slightly shaded.
• Bust: $51 (a: 10)
• Half Body: $68.75 (a: 12)
• Full Body: $90 (a: 14)

• Inked Com.
• Bust: $48.83 (a: 6)
• Half Body: $70.62 (a: 8)
• Full Body: $100 (a: 10)

• Colored Com — slight variation of styles from more high grade cel shading with some painting, to fully painterly renderings (yeah trust me this one is a mess to work with).
• Bust: $98.59 (a: 68)
• Half Body: $135.57 (a: 68)
• Full Body: $179.10 (a: 75)

PS: I'm sure someone somewhere out there has done a study like this sometime in the past, but I figured doing one in 2024 would also be nice? I'm not a numbers/maths person, but I did my best, I swear!!

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Ifrix @ifrix.bsky.social · Feb 17

Another creature sketch made for @markadamscraft.bsky.social
This one again was a lot of fun and I had a definition vision for it right from Mark's initial description

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Ifrix @ifrix.bsky.social · Jan 30

Working out a way of doing snowy regions:

Close up of one of the regions of the continent of Tyr. A large area between mountains is blanketed in thick snow

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Ifrix @ifrix.bsky.social · Jan 28

Back to working on a personal map.
This one is actually a remake of one I made 12 years ago, so will be cool to see the progress

Paintelry map of a large landmass. Mountains and climate colouration have been defined so far

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Ifrix @ifrix.bsky.social · Jan 28

Back to working on a personal map.
This one is actually a remake of one I made 12 years ago, so will be cool to see the progress

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Ifrix @ifrix.bsky.social · Jan 12

Yup 😆
Saw something once where Scottish folk songs are either about: their fair bonny lass, their homeland/island they miss so much, those damn English, or those pesky fey

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Ifrix @ifrix.bsky.social · Jan 11

Hey, I like that song unironically :P

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Ifrix @ifrix.bsky.social · Jan 2

Hope everyone's new year is starting well!
I can finally share some of the creature sketches I worked on for @markadamscraft.bsky.social back in 2023.
I've always loved creature design and this was a great chance to do more of it

Diegetic sketch of a Wyrm, rendered digitally in pencils on paper, showing notes on the creature's biology and habits

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Ifrix @ifrix.bsky.social · Jan 2

Hope everyone's new year is starting well!
I can finally share some of the creature sketches I worked on for @markadamscraft.bsky.social back in 2023.
I've always loved creature design and this was a great chance to do more of it

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Ifrix @ifrix.bsky.social · Dec 11

If you're accepting additions to the list, @kellerica.bsky.social does maps for Chaosium.
As a self-promo I do region maps, though none of the TTRPGs I've worked for have released yet.
I could list way more, but there's a ton of great folk on here: bsky.app/starter-pack...

bsky.app

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Ifrix @ifrix.bsky.social · Dec 11

Haha, yeah I've been asked how I did my mountains in Wonderdraft, had to tell them everything I do is hand-drawn XD

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