I can only give feedback on one point. Yes, your maps are great. I think the love that you put into them is important, and it shows in the output.

However, you may be asking the wrong crowd. We're probably the least likely to want to buy maps, so maybe we don't know as much about the needs of other people. We can make our own maps!

Seriously though, you're on the right track.

While we're doing this, here's Sue (unrelated to anyone here). She helps me map and write code. She wants to give more input than I'd like, but she's welcome to watch. She buries her head under my arm, and I finally got a photo of it.

Sorry, yes it was the DMG. I didn't know one particular rule, so he handed it to me to use. I handled it /very/ carefully.

This style brings back memories. I found a photo of a time when Ernie Gygax visited my house. He was the oldest child of Gary Gygax who was one of the main people behind Dungeons and Dragons. Ernie brought an old map to run a game with. He made it as a child to play his dad's new game. This, by some accounts, was the first player-made map for D&D. These CC3 maps capture the feeling I had when I saw that map.

It's hard to see detail in this photo, but I assure you it looks a lot like Ralf's map. (Note the book in the foreground, which is Ernie's dad's original, hand annotated copy of the 1E Players Handbook.)

I think this style is very pure.

Does this count? I made a simple map of my homeland and engraved it on leather. I traced a screenshot from Google Maps, so the distances are reasonable, but the whale and volcano are my additions. I gave it to my mum.

There's a larger version in my gallery: https://forum.profantasy.com/profile/gallery/11261/KertDawg/415