If you want to use the land shape you've already drawn add a rectangle of ocean over the whole map first using one of the ocean drawing tools, then add your land shape to the same sheet and use the change properties tool to turn the fill of that shape to solid and magenta (colour 6). When you refresh the map that will cut a hole in the sea to reveal the land.

Ah yes, I'd forgotten about that little design flaw of mine.

I couldn't do it easily at the point of creation so I adjusted one by hand so that the centre area is 2000 x 1500.

The way this map is set up the border won't print if you crop to the map border when you export, so you can just ignore it, but if you want it you can export it with the rest of the map by using the Rectangular Section bitmap exports and including the frame in the selection you make.

Hi Everyone! :D

In this week's Live Mapping session Ralf will be adding shadow and light effects to a dungeon map from the ground up, i.e. on a map that was not set up to do it before.

Come and join in the chat live on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpQetrH8yb4

Or watch it right here on the forum if you prefer.

The reversal of land and sea only happened because I wanted to be able to use very soft wide blends between colours on the land without having to obey the coastline.

It's actually the way water is usually done in a city map, so think of it as being an extremly large planetary city map.

EDIT: and if you get stuck at all just shout again. Things might not be as simple as I've described, or work the way I imagine they will, but we will get there in the end.

Ok, that's good to know :)

For the landmass and ocean I recommend Darklands Overland style from the 2021 annual. Read the mapping guide for that one carefully since the sea goes on top of the land. That will give you a parchment land mass and will allow the different colours blended onto the land to extend right up to the coast despite being broadly blurred to give that soft colouration effect. there are set colours for the drawing tools, but you can clone and modify the drawing tools if you want different colours.

Once the land is put down and all the colours sorted out I think your ideas for the symbols are pretty good as it goes, though you might find it a little tricky matching them on a comparatively dark background like Darklands Overland. If that happens use the Mike Schley inks style and add a Blend Mode sheet effect to the symbols sheets set to Multiply to get rid of the white parts.

As for the structure symbols Remy has already explained those.

That leaves just the escarpment symbols. The closest I can think to that style is possibly the escarpments from the new E Prybylski Watercolor style in this year's annual, but they might not match that well.