Nice map Jax.

I agree with most of the comments so far. Those forests look great, but not on this map. I can really see them working on another map that uses textures rather than being hand drawn. The other thing that stood out was the blurriness on your original sea and the edge of the globe but you seem to have addressed that somewhat. I much prefer your new sea, I like the colour, but it could do with something to show perspective like the rest of the map. At the moment it looks like a perspective map draped on a flat sea.

It still looks great though.