It's very much a personal thing, and because of that you may or may not find this png useful depending on what you decide to do. It's a gradient shadow that you could use to make the 'down' appearance of the down stairs more obviously 'down', though it may have the result of making the up stairs look a bit flat.

As for leaving space for the landing - that again is up to you. I have a personal preference for the second image, but other's may disagree.

Lovely :)

A lot of hard work has clearly gone into this. I particularly like the pool.

And Happy Birthday :D

Hi everyone :)

In this week's live mapping session Ralf will present the latest Cartographer's Annual issue: The Parchment World overland style.

Come along and join in the live chat on YouTube here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nd78fcQc1YA

Or watch it here on the forum if you prefer (though there's no live chat here)

That looks better :)

It looks really good :)

Maybe adjust the positioning of a couple of the ocean names just a little to prevent them getting so close to the land? And that Blood Sea label is pretty unreadable as it stands. Maybe it's one of those rare instances where you need to break the rule about the blue ocean labels and turn the label for that one a very pale blue - quite close to white? I wouldn't make it absolutely white, though, because it would stand out too much.