Looks like a great start :)

You can do it using GIMP.

When you get to the point in the video half way through, you don't need to go any further saving it as a pattern in GIMP. Just export yourself a png file to your User folder.

It works better on some images than others. Try not to pick images that are vastly different on either side or top and bottom.

If you can draw your own pattern you could use Krita (another free bitmap editor), which has a wrap feature to give you an endlessly repeating canvas to draw on. This video talks about saving a pattern within Krita, but he does say about 90 seconds in that you can just export it to png the moment you're happy with the drawing. (this video does go a long way off track the further through you go)

That's a nicer font, but it still looks quite spidery.

How about making the labels a little larger, or using the bold version of the font?

Do you have a drop shadow on that sheet? It may not be helping.

You could also try making the glow a little more definite?

These are all just suggestions.

Hmmm.

Considering whether some kind of wake can be shown behind a tree...

I've got one of those. You might have to work a bit with fills and so on.

https://forum.profantasy.com/discussion/comment/72048/#Comment_72048

LOL! Where would I be without you, Wyvern?

I know! I know! Some-were-elks, I guess.

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I don't usually do a preparatory sketch, but I was waiting to drive my mum somewhere, so here's a quick sketch of the basic idea.

I'm going to use Winter Village for the base, and add from other styles to create the brighter colours of the tundra in the low area to the south of the map. The whole village is on a slope with higher ground to the north.

I'll do the map at first all in Winter Village and modify it where necessary once the basics are in.

There aren't any rivers marked on the area map. Should I take these out?

You can tell I haven't done an actual map for years. I'm still trying to get the right size and shape, and make enough space for a legend.

I replaced those Darklands City trees with Forest Trail pines, and laying out the roads for a split community - some of them live on the tundra in the valley, while others live on the steep slope above it. This being a village at the end of the civilised road, the only things that leave Elkton apart from the road into the village from the west are trails. Animal trails...

Ok. The streams stay :)

Can't have the were-elks wandering away in search of water.

Still playing with map size and composition, but soon it will be time to start looking at the rocky north and the tundra plain in the south.

Thanks Helen :)

This is just an analysis of what's there and what isn't on the WALLS sheet alone.

There are 3 entities on the walls sheet. One is a spiral staircase symbol, and the other 2 are lines drawn with one of the Bogie's Mapping Collection tarmac fills. I don't have the BMC installed, so these are all red X entities on my PC.

There is a Color Key on that sheet, but there are no pink polygons or lines, so nothing is being cut.