Mixing styles is pretty tricky - especially when one is a highly refined ink and wash style and the other is photorealistic. It's often less jarring to stick to one style in a map if you can.

It's very much a personal thing, and because of that you may or may not find this png useful depending on what you decide to do. It's a gradient shadow that you could use to make the 'down' appearance of the down stairs more obviously 'down', though it may have the result of making the up stairs look a bit flat.

As for leaving space for the landing - that again is up to you. I have a personal preference for the second image, but other's may disagree.

Lovely :)

A lot of hard work has clearly gone into this. I particularly like the pool.

And Happy Birthday :D

Hi everyone :)

In this week's live mapping session Ralf will present the latest Cartographer's Annual issue: The Parchment World overland style.

Come along and join in the live chat on YouTube here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nd78fcQc1YA

Or watch it here on the forum if you prefer (though there's no live chat here)

That looks better :)