Tackling a new style - Regional

[Coyotemax]

you may want to consider putting a small stroke around the labels, or move some of them around a tad, a few of them are difficult to read ( Dunmore and Nortree being the biggest concerns) due to the black on black nature of the text vs underlying elements.

The tower in the river by Dunsmore looks like it's overlapping, with the riverbank showing through, you may want to consider either erasing the lines under it, of some sort of masking so the tower looks solid I think the rest of the town'castle/etc markers look okay. In the same vein there's a few mountains that look like they are overlapping the same way, i don't know how much of a concern that is for you.

I also notice the forests at the top of the map are very small brushes, and the ones at the bottom are larger - is that an intentional effect? If so, nice, it gives the iso- fill a bit of perspective, neat idea

I like the way you did the water too.. did you scan that in?

[Boethius61]

I like the way you did the water too.. did you scan that in?

Thanks, I was going for a look like someone just grabbed a pencil and quickly scratched in some lines.

No, I didn't scan it, that was much easier and simpler. It uses one of my favorite tools in GIMP - the ability to use the clipboard as a brush/pencil/airbrush.

All I did was take my pencil on its smallest setting and scratch a few lines (maybe 6). Then I just grab that with the circle select (or square, or lasso - whatever is appropriate). Hit Ctrl-c, then erased the scratches (you could do it in a separate layer or even separate file but I find this is quick and easy). At this point the selection is in the clipboard and appears in my brushes as an option. So I grabbed my airbrush, dropped the opacity to about 75% and fiddled with my scale (these two things vary - you have to play around as always). Then I just sprayed up and down my coastlines (I like to go perpendicular to my clipboard lines with things like this). Finally, toss on a mask at the coast; which, of course, I already had in my channels.

I did about 3 runs at it, fiddling with the scale and opacity, till I got one I liked. Even with the 3 attempts it took less than 5 minutes.

I was pleased with the result.

As for the font, I've been digging through a few thousand downloadable fonts looking for the right one (and picking up some extras). If I find something perfect I will change it up and re submit it. I will fix the hard to read text at the same time.

The tree thing was unintentional - I just messed up and changed my scale. But when it was done I saw the same thing you did - a perspective effect. I liked it so I left it. Just a happy accident.