Francesca Baerald

Francesca Baerald

@francescabaerald.com

Traditional Artist/Cartographer happily working in the game & publishing industry 👾🎲🎨 WotC•D&D•MtG | SquareEnix | Blizzard•Diablo•Warcraft | DarkHorse | Conan | Free League | Gloomhaven | & more! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/spiridon/unbound

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THANK YOU ALL for an extraordinary campaign 🤩 788 backers from all over the world 680% funded with 170K All 6 Stretch Goals reached My dream artbook can now become real thanks to your precious support!

Only one day left! I'm still amazed by all the incredible support my artbook has received from people all around the world - here are some kind words on my art from artists and creatives that totally made my day! 🩵

Less than 2 days to go, the final 150k stretch goal reached - let's celebrate with my map of Orsterra! I'm happy to share that all the maps I have painted for Octopath Traveler game series will be in my artbook, with Square Enix's kind permission.

"What are you working at there?" "A map," Conan answered with pride. "The maps of the court show well the countries of south, east and west, but in the north they are vague and faulty. I am adding the northern lands myself. Here is Cimmeria, where I was born." from The Phoenix on the Sword

Last chance to pledge for UNBOUND and get the exclusive extras! 320 pages, over 250 fantastical maps collected in a XXL curated cartography artbook. Ending Friday Oct 9th (18:00 CEST / 12:00 EST)

When your map of Gloomhaven is full of stickers, only then you can say you had a truly glorious adventure ⚔️ I've been to Gloomhaven many times, with Jaws of the Lion, Frosthaven and Gloomhaven and now with their upcoming RPG - thanks to Cephalofair these maps will be all showcased in my artbook!

Just a week ago I was in Misty Vale enjoying 'The Village from the Day before' Dragonbane's adventure. But time is due to pass in the real world, so remember there are just 4 DAYS LEFT to pledge for UNBOUND!

The misty evening is spreading some nice, dark Halloween vibes and sharing some vampires seems appropriate 🩸 Map of Nosgoth from Legacy of Kain (Crystal Dynamics - Dark Horse)

My fascination for Dragons will never end - I'm really glad I had the chance to explore their many essences with my D&D Dragonlance map (included in my artbook UNBOUND).

It's fantastic when I'm encouraged to push boundaries and explore new styles - thank you Dark Horse and Guerrilla for letting me try new things with my map for Horizon Forbidden West!

Paris, La Ville Lumière, as I've seen it in my map for Steelrising videogame (Spiders). This gave me the chance to study historical maps of the city and give to this version of Paris a little visual twist, for this fascinating game setting.

I never would have dreamt of having not one, but 5 official maps from Warcraft inside my artbook 🤩 As a long-time WoW player, they bring back a lot of memories! Maybe it's a good time to go back to Azeroth with Warcraft Forever?

I've journeyed through Thedas many times, but only twice as a cartographer. Dragon Age has always inspired me and UNBOUND wouldn't be complete without these maps, made with great pleasure for Dark Horse.

There's a Dragon for every taste in this map! 🐲 You can find Kambria in my artbook UNBOUND or explore it in the Dragon Thrones: Atlas of Kambria from EverythingEpic.

This is a dark and dangerous place, one not for untrained adventurers! 💀 You'll find this and other maps from Oathsworn: Into the Deepwood in my artbook UNBOUND.

120k and 5th stretch goal reached, my artbook UNBOUND is becoming real! Here's a look at what you will find in this XXL book 🤩 And don't forget the free extras only available for the Kickstarter campaign.

This morning I had the chance to talk with Marco and Francesco of RoundTwo about games and my artbook Unbound. It was amazing and I had a great time 😊 Thank you guys!

I loved painting the many characters and scenes for this unique illustration, created as a promotional artwork for the release of Assassin's Creed Mirage! I'm really grateful that Ubisoft has kindly given me the permission to include this special map in my artbook UNBOUND, now live on Kickstarter 🤩

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A celebration of human art and physical things. Very timely.

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The artist who hand-paints some of gaming's best fantasy world maps (@francescabaerald.com) is bringing them together in a new, oversized and extremely lavish art book www.eurogamer.net/francesca-ba...

I've made many maps of cities, but only one for a fantasy satire book series! Here's Andarun, one of the many cities you can explore inside my artbook UNBOUND. -from The Dark Profit Saga by J. Zachary Pike

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A map clearly inspired by Ancient Roman architecture 🏛️ and since I was born in Italy, you can imagine how much I enjoyed discovering 'The Forgotten City' (Game of the Year BAFTA award nominee).