Thread: working regional map of much larger map

I personally always liked this kind of maps ever since I was little (the ones witht his slight textury-3d-feel). So I like this one!
Unless it is your personal style though, I'd suggest working a little more on the river, it cuts through the map quite harsh (by that I mean it looks very different from the rest).

As for the forests edge: You could try not to fade out the transparency, but rather place individual trees at the edges. If you create a brush for it, it shouldn't take too long either!

Again; good work, I like it.

Cheers,
Griph

Perhaps you could try the tree-thing or single tree-flocks or a more random edge for the forests

Took me a while to realise that those two patches of green along the river are marshes, you might want to make the colour/texture a bit more distinguishable from the forest.

You may not be bothered about the physical geography (I'm a geography nerd when it comes to mapping), but those marshes don't seem plausible to me, because the river flows straight through them, implying a free-draining area. Marshy areas occur on flat ground, with the rivers meandering through them in loops.