Commemmorating my time buidling/preparing/overseeing COVID Test Sites

[JCRugger]

Hi all- Long time lurker and admirer of the work on here. I have been building and overseeing COVID Test Sites here in NW England since March 27, 2020. Tomorrow is my last day before 6 weeks off, and I wanted to commission a frame-worthy map to commemorate my time helping during the pandemic. I have no particular style in mind, but a decent budget to commission something for hanging up for posterity.

My Google Map is here: https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/ed...3O&usp=sharing.

I am not an artist, nor do I play one on TV, so all thoughts/styles would be welcome, happy to answer any and all comments publicly, and thank you in advance for your thoughts/ideas, even if you do not wish to take the commission.

Cheers,
JC

[Josiah VE]

Welcome to the guild! Thank you so much for your great work! Hope you find the perfect artist for the job

[Ryan S. Thomason]

Hi there JC,

Sounds like you deserve that time off chief! I do hand-drawn maps, and my portfolio is here: https://www.ryansthomason.com/Mapmaking/. If my style suits, I can be reached at ryan@ryansthomason.com.

[JCRugger]

Hi there JC,

Sounds like you deserve that time off chief! I do hand-drawn maps, and my portfolio is here: https://www.ryansthomason.com/Mapmaking/. If my style suits, I can be reached at ryan@ryansthomason.com.

I like tyour Westeros map style- could you send me a quote for a 36"x48" (or similar size if it works better)? jc.carleton at gmail dot com. Thanks!

[Ifrix]

Hey JC,

Thanks for all your hard work during the pandemic!
I have a variety of styles in my portfolio here so if you like the look of any and want to discuss options further, I can be contacted at ifirix-at-gmail-dot-com

[JCRugger]

Thanks both for replying, and you both have amazing work. My first concern is that the area I covered is pretty vast, and there are 100+ sites on my Google Map I'd want to capture. Most of your maps appear to be majority color and design, minority places/names. That is awesome, but I am concerned that putting in 100+ place names or even logos with numbers (the LTS/RTS number and/or date perhaps) would be difficult to work in?

Any thoughts about how that could be overcome? Size? Colour? Blow-outs for places like Manchester and Liverpool which have 5+ sites?

[Ryan S. Thomason]

Thanks chief! For your map, I'd distort the scale slightly to focus on the Manchester-Liverpool area, with blow-outs if necessary. I just did a count on the first map in my portfolio, and there's just a little more than a hundred placenames in there, so I'm confident that size of paper would work for you too.

[JCRugger]

So I was thinking on this further, and these are the other historical maps from places I served in the Foreign Service, and I think if something like this could be done it would be super, I note the Jamaica map from the 1700's seems very much like a fantasy map!

[JCRugger]

Hey JC,

Thanks for all your hard work during the pandemic!
I have a variety of styles in my portfolio here so if you like the look of any and want to discuss options further, I can be contacted at ifirix-at-gmail-dot-com

Your Suvonar map seems really nice, maybe with some kind of Icon to differentiate the walk-in vs Drive-in sites (numbered), and just a list below listed by date? Could you do a really large format? 36x48 perhaps? Could you send me a quote jc.carleton at gmail dot com?

[Ifrix]

Your Suvonar map seems really nice, maybe with some kind of Icon to differentiate the walk-in vs Drive-in sites (numbered), and just a list below listed by date? Could you do a really large format? 36x48 perhaps? Could you send me a quote jc.carleton at gmail dot com?

Sent a quote and some thoughts/answers over