After a long break while I was trying to work out how to tackle the painting of things (which of many quite different apps to use, and how), I've settled on Artrage for the textures purely because it allows me to paint seamless tiles by hand a lot easier than trying to remember how Krita works after 5 years of not really using it.

So here are the first few refined grassy type fills, desert fills and ocean fills.

I also struggled a long time on the land texture, until I remembered that it was mostly going to be hidden in finished maps.

The mountains haven't been finished, and there are symbols hanging around that are part of other styles, like Spectrum and Darklands. They are just there for now for rough comparisons in tone, shade and colour.

Wanting to make a map for the novel I never finished writing (and probably never will).

Incidentally, there is currently an unbelivable Humble Bundle deal for the whole caboodle at the price of a single Cartographer's Annual.

There are a lot of settings or variations of the basic commands that you can modify by right clicking the buttons. Check them out and see :)

What a huge body of work to leave behind! Besides being a lovely, gentle man he will probably be one of the most prolific fantasy mappers in history.