6/29/2023 0 Comments Fantasy map designer riversYou can find out more about Petticreme’s designs here:Īudrey is a cartographer who’s created maps for these female authors: She currently works full time as a Graphic Designer for Rebellion Publishing and has produced maps for Flames of Mira by Clay Harmon and Black Coast by Mike Brooks. I mainly enjoy producing pastel coloured illustrations and dark contrasting comic stories.” “My style has a feminine colourful appearance and I enjoy producing character designs, environments and comics. Gemma Nicole Dawn Sheldrake or as she prefers to be known as Petitecreme which is her collective online name. You can find out more about Nicolette’s work here: Website “When I saw Caven’s design I loved it and thought all the little details, which were inspired by historical maps, were great.” She has worked on maps for The Shattered Sea trilogy by Joe Abercrombie, and The Daevabad trilogy by S.A. Nicolette works with publishers such as Harper Collins, Penguin Random House and the Tolkien Estate. She’s been a freelance illustrator for thirty years. She specialises in hand drawn maps of actual and imaginary worlds for book endpapers. Nicolette Caven is an Illustrator based In London, UK. You find example of her designs right here: Her work includes both black and white or full colour maps for fantasy worlds, cities, and even for video game worlds. You can see a full range of her work here:įrancesca Baerald is a freelance artist and cartographer. She is a truly talented artist and I recommend her to anyone who needs an evocative fantasy map for their work.” “Diana Sousa brought to life the surreal landscape of Grief & Hope for our anthology and it was truly wondrous to see the way she brought our ideas to life. Here’s a quote from Virginia McClain who worked on the anthology: This is the domain map that Soraya did for The Thirteenth Hour:Īnd this is the map for my YA series, Sand Dancer:ĭiana Sousa lives in Portugal and works as a freelance designer, illustrator and comic book colourist.ĭiana created the map for The Alchemy of Sorrow, An SFF anthology of grief and hope bringing together 13 exceptionally talented authors, from SPFBO finalists to bestsellers to rising voices. What she designed completely blew me away! I’ll definitely be calling on her again for all my maps. I half expected this idea to be too much, but Soraya loved it and jumped on board. I wanted something that was part time table for a magical portal, and also part map. Second, I came to her with an idea of making a clock map that would represent twelve domains for my gaslamp fantasy, The Thirteenth Hour. I ended up making a few tweaks to my book to account for her advice! Not only is Soraya talented at drawing maps, but she’s a true cartographer, and understands how landmasses, mountains, and rivers are formed, thus shaping how they would realistically look on a map. I wanted a map shaped like a sword, and Soraya politely explained why that might not work so well and she guided me through a fantastic design of my world. The first was a kingdom map for my YA fantasy series, Sand Dancer. I came to Soraya twice with crazy ideas for maps. To see examples of her gorgeous work please visit her website below and Twitter account. She has worked on a full range of different styled maps including black and white, sepia, full colour maps and urban maps. Soraya Corcoran is an author and part time cartographer based in the US. This is by far not a complete list, and please let us know if we have left anyone out and we’ll happily add them. We wanted to highlight all the wonderful female map designers and cartographers who work so hard to bring an author’s fantasy world to life!Ī little thank you to all the publishers and authors who contributed quotes and images to this list and gave us many designers to highlight. Here at the Hive we absolutely love seeing fantasy maps! In fact you could say we’re more than a little obsessed over them.
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