That's a good start, Glitch, though I recommend having a second look at how tiny the tree symbols are in relation to other things on the map. Symbols don't have to look like they are the correct scale compared to everything else. The more important job of a symol is that it is large enough to be easily recognised for what it is at a glance. That is why most fantasy styles have mountains that seem to be too small compared to the rest of the set, and trees that are larger than life. It's so that both can be easily recognised while only taking up as much space as they need.

The mountain range looks fine to me.

It looks really good, though I would try to make the dividing line between temperate and arctic a little less defined and perfectly horizontal.

In the real world, that line is broad area of transition that can be bent further north or south than usual by warmer or colder ocean currents, prevailing winds and mountain ranges. It's a whole lot more irregular than you might expect. The UK, for example, should be as freezing cold as Labrador, but we bathe in the warmth of the Gulf Stream bringing heat up from the Gulf of Mexico.

Hi Everyone! :)

In this Thursday's Live Mapping session Ralf will be using the first style of the 2008 Cartographer's Annual to draw a map in Pete Fenlon's classic 1980's RPG map style.

Come along and join in the fun :)

We need to have fish, of course! Huge swirling rainbow shoals of them.

Thank you, Elfling :)

I just hid the water to show the walls without it, but now you mention it I probably didn't even think about them because I sometimes have dreams where the atmosphere is still air, but the creatures of the sea swim through it like an ocean. It's probably because an early geography teacher of mine once impressed upon the class that the atmosphere is really a gigantic ocean of gas...