Lost Duchy - First regional map for comment

[altasilvapuer]

I also like the mountains - they are very intriguing. They look like molded clay to me. They could maybe use a little hardening up and texturizing, but I think you could also make them work as-is.

And try this for the rivers:
Tapered rivers in Photoshop, by Ravells

-asp

[Azinctus]

And try this for the rivers: Tapered rivers in Photoshop, by Ravells

Thanks for that the tapering pencil effect is very handy. However in the tutorial Ravells has a vector he can modify after its drawn when I do it it is already rasterised and I can't change the shape. Why is that?

Looks good for a first go, but yeah...those rivers... To me it looks more like long fiords instead of rivers. Even carved out of the mountains. I think the bevel on the rivers is something to look at. I am not a PS user so I am no help there. I do like the rest of it though. I agree with AS that the mountains can work as is, and the colors and and water texture also work.

I entirely agree. I've tried to find a solution, if you look at the river that flows by The Capital up in the mountains I made a short section that lies on top of the mountain texture. It seems better to me. However it was fiddly and I'm not going to redo all the rivers - for now. Thanks for the rep!

Here is the map with all the suggestions so far included (I didn't include the compass rose I was going to use becuase I realise I ripped it from some map years ago and I have no idea who it belongs to):