Really loved the Myrr Overland style - sort of reminded me of maps of the Conan fictional universe, so I decided to make a map loosely based on Bronze-age Mesopotamia. It's been a fun experiment and I have learned a lot researching the bronze-age civilizations of the area. I have another layer with the political borders of the time (-ish).

I tried to essentially trace from a google map of the area, but rivers and small lakes were difficult, so they aren't anywhere near accurate.

Let me know what you think?

Haha! Less "Double Vision"?

If you all are still looking for articles, I have a in CC3 technique for creating hills using shading and hue / saturation settings that I could write up.

I am going to play around with the sea / versus river bitmaps and effects. If I can get the see to have a similar texture to the Caspean Sea (which is using the river default effects), it should make it easier on the eyes.

It's funny because once you zoom in or look at the map in CC3, the "seeing double" essentially disappears. I certainly wasn't anticipating this issue!