Thank you so much @Monsen! This feels like a perfect moment to procrastinate. Or create those multi-sheet symbols.

I mean it's 33% of the map you don't have to put too much effort into right off the bat. The Substantial Body of Water of non-marine maps.

Left, right?

Exectution could be better but alltogether an improvement I should think, @Loopysue . All that fuzz for a softer edge! :D

Contours are - probably - a bit too thick for encounter map zoom level. But that' allright.

Considering greening up the area between city wall and mansions - toning down the dirt feel.

With regards to composition, I don't find it too busy; with no colours there is only so much you can convey without placing a symbol, after all.

I am looking for symbol slip-ups but you seem to be on top of the back-to-front way of doing things. So, yeah; fantastic first regional map, says I!

There is that, of course. But these would fall into the planetary-defence-grid-just-kicked-in-and-lit-up-the-sky-category. 😆

Since the map itself is more or less done with I thought I'd spend some time on embellishments.

8 triangular shapes and a circle (colour coded for ease of acquiring when tracing the contour). I think some sort of stereotypical norse/dwarf wood carving will make up the frame of the design. Perhaps the bottom right corner featuring a figurine of some kind with a serpentine pattern for the sides - partially wreathed in a ribbon/holly combo.

Colour scheme probably needs sorting out there; going dark to bright with the cut-out effect seems more appropriate somehow - but that would depend on the tree one was pretending to paint being carved upon.

The colouring pattern kind of works, other than that, I think.

See, here's the thing I know: it's difficult to play music "wrong" once you know how to play proper. So..what I am definately reading into this is...well...you be the trained visual artist! 😂

Got around to starting a map. Did not finish it, of course, but the video is getting uploaded once I figure out how to set up timestamps.