[John H. Carroll]

Does anyone know of any decent artists that do fantasy cityscapes?

My next trilogy is set in a dangerous magical city with lots of towers.  I want to commission one large cityscape and use four separate parts of it for the covers of the three books and the omnibus.

I plan on searching deviantart and various other sites for someone (very) affordable, but figured I'd ask here in case someone knew of a more obscure artist.  I'd really like to work with someone starting out so we can become famous together. (optimism)  Plus I don't have enough to afford anyone too established.

If you have a website with examples of their work, I'd love to see it.

 

[MariaESchneider]

I would ask:

http://www.johndotegowski.com/

I think he has pretty darn reasonable rates. He just did a cover for a short story of mine (that was picked up by Darwin's Evolutions--due out Wed. I can show you the cover privately if you want to see it before then, but his website has lots of artwork on it.) He's easy to work with, good guy.

Or:
http://arcosart.deviantart.com/

I spoke with him about doing some artwork; he had varying rates depending on complexity. He's done at least one cover before and he communicated well even though I ended up doing something different for that book.

If you need someone for photo manipulation shots, let me know. I have a couple of reqs for that as well.

 

[John H. Carroll]

Thank you very much.   I'll check them out.

 

[J.G. McKenney]

Also try conceptart.org. There is a forum there where you can advertise for an artist. Worked for me.

 

[anne_holly]

I highly recommend professional artist Amanda Wood from Ohio. She works to spec, in a wide variety of styles, and her prices are fairly negotiable. She also reads the novel if you want, which is a nice perk that some artists I have found don't do.

http://nevernotamanda.blogspot.com/

Her site is new, so it doesn't have everything up there yet, but if you email her I am sure she can show you samples that would be up your alley.

She did one of my covers to spec, and we are collaborating on my fake-memoir that I am currently writing.

 

[John H. Carroll]

Thank you, I will look into both of those as well.