More trees.

I think I should pay a bit of attention to what I want to do with this map now. A maze... a warren of paths through the woodland to the village? Not sure yet.

There are.

I made them to cover large areas in dense forest. They only work well if you carefully spot single tree symbols all around the edges.

Part of the forest in the example map is done that way.

There are also drawing tools that do symbols in area. I think they were incorporated into the symbol catalogs

Yes, it is a nice shape isn't it, but my goodness, that's a very wiggly coastline!

How about making some of the lowland bays a bit smoother so there's a bit of contrast with the wiggly bits?

Other than that it looks really good.

No that's a good idea. Have you thought of making it a more pale yellow? It will show up a little better.

I can remember doing something similar myself a couple of times.

Do they render to an image output like that?

Yes. She's done work for Wizards of the Coast, and a whole load of other big games companies. Really nice person and a great artist.

In case you are wondering - yes, those are genuine pencil/ink and watercolour on real paper.

The user manual explains how it works

The ODW explains how to get a particular set of results, using the tools available, and assumes prior knowledge of the user manual.

It starts about 10 minutes in from the current start. That's the raw video for now.

You're welcome :)

Oh, don't worry about the text. I seem to have done quite a job of it myself!

Ah. Sorry Julian - I got the toggle the wrong way around.

Now you've got it working you can experiment with other lighter parchments, or reduce the opacity of the Blend Mode.

Whichever - if you are wanting to print your map eventually on specialist paper or into a book, you would probably want to produce it without the parchment effect.