quoting Izambri, Duke, the Findible League:

quoting Hālian, Atetía @ Central Florida:

Your money is too beautiful for this world, how do you not have a job designing money irl

(Also I've been trying to design Hoennese coinage but drawing a blank as to obverse designs… doesn't help that I can't draw anything more complicated than simple geometric shapes myself, either vector or raster.)

Drawing fantasy money (coins and banknotes) is quite easy once you now where to fish textures and images and how to work with them. In the first case Rhetorica and bloodbath have already pointed out the basic places: Wikimedia Commons, OpenClipart... Doing extensive searchs through Google Images also helps a lot, especially for gradations, uncommon geometric shapes and other textures.

Then working them shouldn't be a big problem: I use Paint.NET, a free software, but more complex things like Gimp or Photoshop are also a possibility. To be honest, you really don't need something very professional, since playing with basic tools like gradient, magic wands and layers is practically all you need. The most important thing of all, in my opinion, is to have a clear idea of what you want to do, no matter if it's too close to real coins and banknotes or a more deviant design.

This is exactly what I recommend: find a good software that you're comfortable using and work with it. Paint.NET is my go-to, but nowadays I use a combination of Inkscape for lettering and some of the text effects and Paint.NET for the actual assembly. Have an idea of what you want to do, but also don't be afraid to try!

quoting Izambri, Duke, the Findible League:

The next series of banknotes (which I'll do some day...) will be more refined. And so on. It's all about trying to do it, failing at it, and repeating.

Bingo. I've been making banknotes for 10+ (!) years, and I've only gotten semi-good at it because of a lot of practice and a lot of designs that looked hideous. Took me about 5 years to get comfortable with the process, and I'm still learning new things.

The major problem for designing Hoennese currency is finding art of Pokémon that is both suitable and available for this use.

More money, because OMG MONEY:

This is playing around some with the Oshaharu language, though with these being more what stupid foreigners use, since the pyew can't legally be exported or converted into foreign currency. So we have some nice foreign exchange certificates (similar to Cuba's peso convertible).

Convertible currencies! A perfect example of a nerd-magnetic curiosity, and yet it somehow has evaded any constuff I can think of. Brilliant idea.

I'm afraid I may have some strong opinions about that writing system, though. It's not a good sign when each element in a featural writing system has its own postal code. Maybe try making the vertical and horizontal lines shorter? It's okay as-is for a couple of words, but that is definitely not a font you'd typeset a book in.

I still like money.

These are cool as always. I particularly like the country silhouette on the left. New batch?

quoting Hallow XIII, 蘇黎世之侯:

These are cool as always. I particularly like the country silhouette on the left. New batch?

Thanks, and yep! Realized that I hadn't completed the set I'd started 2018, plus I wanted to play around with some new stuff and some changes to the design (not very major changes, but some), so I decided to do a full redesign of Telemor franc notes. There will also likely be a 200- and a 500-franc note, though those are work-in-progress.

(TEF 1 ~ USD 1.20-1.25, depending on day)

God I wish I could make banknotes half this nice

quoting Hālian, Alípteza @ Central Florida:

God I wish I could make banknotes half this nice

Just keep working at it! I've been making them on the computer for a very long time (uh, about 13 years?), so I think that might show.

Indeed, we now have a 200- and a 500-franc note:

It just occurred to me—Telemor is a federal republic, yes? A lot of those faces look pretty young to be accomplished politicians from a representative democracy.

quoting Rhetorica, Kelatetía: Dis, Major Belt 1:

It just occurred to me—Telemor is a federal republic, yes? A lot of those faces look pretty young to be accomplished politicians from a representative democracy.

While Telemor is a federal republic, yes, the featured personalities aren't politicians: they're more artists, musicians, scientists, and writers. This is much like old German Mark, French franc, and Austrian Schilling notes (as well as current Swedish banknotes and most of the current Australian and New Zealand dollar banknotes).


Also, behold: new money.

We need more money. I like money. (This is from a commission, my first in a very long time!)

Nice! Where is Soundland? :-)

quoting hwhatting, Sophomore, Bonn, Germany:

Nice! Where is Soundland? :-)

Apparently, it's a micronation in the Pacific Northwest, near the Puget Sound area.

Ah, ok. Micronations are a fascinating thing.

We can only assume you were paid in Soundland Dollars for the commission.

quoting Rhetorica, Kelatetía: Dis, Major Belt 1:

We can only assume you were paid in Soundland Dollars for the commission.

I guess he's able to print them himself :-)

quoting hwhatting, Sophomore, Bonn, Germany:

quoting Rhetorica, Kelatetía: Dis, Major Belt 1:

We can only assume you were paid in Soundland Dollars for the commission.

I guess he's able to print them himself :-)

I would be able to, though that makes me curious how the printing went. They do apparently convert at a 1:1 rate to US dollars, though...

Yay for commemorative money.