Welcome!

I also suffered a lot in this aesthetic aspect until i start to do something acceptable .

This tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8Fvz98lJ7Q&t=524s helped me a lot to practice this. Once you have mastered the "operation" of tracing, you can superimpose any image, and at that moment I used images from google maps for reference... and I still use it... a lot!

Cheers

mushrooms, skeleton, some stones and the altar on map above are from Perspectives.

Hy @Steven Nentwig (Steven!) the cliffs are from @Loopysue city cliffs

hello @Rainshine

Using this style (mike Schley overland) here its my process:

1 I position my volcano on the map using the sheet Symbol

2 I create the sheet SYMBOLS TREES BACK (as <<< to draw attention) and position it above (below) the Sheet symbols and below (above) the sheet symbols back.

3 select the tree you want and select the new sheet - SYMBOLS TREES BACK

4 place any tree icon where you want

5 - refresh

Tree images on this sheet automatically go behind images on the SYMBOLS sheet. Note the error in the lower left corner where the trunk of the palm tree appears undesirably behind the volcano image.

Then you can select the icon and delete it (more work) or hide it in the next step.

6 - Now go back to the original sheet of the SYMBOLS TREES program and work from there.

This is where I usually "hide imperfections" in images that were poorly placed on the sheet at the back. In this case I cover the root of the palm tree with more palm trees, but it could be a hill, a city, etc.

7 - If you want to add a "pasture" effect you can still create a SYMBOLS TREES GRASS sheet and place it under all symbols sheets

8 - select the Scrub vegetation and make sure you are working on the new sheet symbols trees grass (sometimes the program "forces" you to go to another sheet and you have to select the sheet you want again).

And place the Scrub where you want the effect.

9 - refresh

Cheers

Hy @EukalyptusNow !

The cliffs were not reversed. I just maximized their size. I also have a lot of problems with them, because they look very "hard" visually. I miss the Mike Schlei style of negative cliffs, like someone looking from the bottom up.

As for the extensions of the bridge, I used the tree trunk from the monthly lumberjack symbol > tree trunk without branches. I hid it in the back after the bridge was already made... so I needed to create a specific Sheet for it. Later, I tried to hide the joints with some vegetation.

Also note that on the bridge, I created a sheet just to put some sand on top and give it a more "used" look and notice that on the green sheet of the upper greens, I added an internal glow with a brownish color to differentiate it from the floor below (river) and try to achieve the effect of a ravine.

P.s.: Lower Cliff lines are imported from Sue Richards Darkland Style

Cheers