That's great! :D

Do you do sea monsters?

Or how about a ship?

Don't forget that there are some really handy sheet effects that can help you with the visuals. There are quite a lot of them, so it might be helpful to take a quick look at this video. It's one of our live mapping sessions in which Ralf Schemman discusses the uses of all the sheet effects.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4y9NRUm2jHg

Hi everyone! :D

This week you are invited to come and join us as Ralf creates another of his 1 hour maps in the Black and White City style from the Cartographer's Annual Vol 4.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oyrh6rp6J6g

Or if you don't like YouTube you can watch it here:

Good work :)

Maybe the coastline can be made thicker, or the most pointy hills shrunk down to miniature size and used as waves? You could draw your own vector symbol waves, or if you have the latest annual issue (Ellis Prybylski Watercolour) there are wave symbols in that one.

You could try a pale transparent shape over the sea to make it fractionally darker than the land, but it might look odd where this is a linework style.

The effect around the labels is a little narrow to separate them from the black detail of the map, but it might be ok if the map is much larger than here.

That definitely should not have happened. The MERGE layer isn't a destination, or it shouldn't be a destination. If you end up like that again please can you let Tech Support know so we can work out what is going wrong and correct it?

Thanks.