I’ve started one using Jon Robert’s overland style but as I’ve got my eye on other locations I may well do a pencil sketch or a handrawn one -- and yes you are biased Wyvern!🤣

The map is being drawn using Jon Roberts Overland style but I’m building the town using Jonathan Roberts Cities template. Up to now I’ve avoided the structures in the Cities template simply because I had got it into my head that I hated the shapes, so I decided to see whether I actually could use them to create a town with them, and I’ve come to like them but strictly on a very small scale! I’m also using colour to help differentiate types of structures, e.g Civic Offices and Harbour area as well as residential areas.

The map below is just a rough outline of the town that I’ve named ’Ridia. I build towns by placing the structures first and then put the roads in, the opposite to a great many of my fellow mappers but that’s how my brain works best.

By the way, were the two templates done by the same person?

I need suggestions - I’ve been rebuilding ’Ridia over and over and although it looks fine when zoomed in, I either have it large enough to see when zoomed to extents which means that it swamps the entire bottom right corner of the map, or small enough that its in keeping with the visual scale of the map as a whole which means that nobody (not even me!) can see what’s where. The symbols down the left of the map are in preparation for a key, by the way.

Thanks for the tip about editing the tree fill, @Don Anderson Jr. I had great fun doing the delta -- zooming in, I used a fractal line and started with two main stems, then went down .2 and then after i’d put in enough lines, I went down another .2 and filled in some gaps. I could have gone on but you probably wouldn't be able to see them on such a small map so decided not to gild the lily. Instead I got all 12th century and put structures for Heloise and Abelard to live in, one each side of the river! Had fun trying to get the structures large enough to see and not too densely hemmed in.