Quote Originally Posted by Kingbreaker View Post
2) Yeah, actually I was going for a stacked-woodcut look combined with a satellite top-down approach, rather than the cutout symbols as in the first map. I've tried about 6 distinct mountain styles so far. . . it's an interesting challenge. Bump-maps from P-shop just do not fit.
If you have the time to commit and want some distinct mountains symbolic mountains that don't look cut out, take a look at the end of this thread. You might also want to take a look at Pasis's tutorial here as there are some really nice mountains done in PS.