I'm roughly following the Sederan tutorial for this world map, which intended to be the half of of a world above the equator. I didn't use the Sederan ocean but I followed the tutorial for land elevation, mountains, hills, rivers. So far, so good.

When I go to add vegetation and forest, though, it looks horrible. I'm 100% certain this is due to my own limitations as an artist (and not Sederan's wonderful tutorial).

I've made a few attempts and I'm wondering if perhaps I should just try a new approach. My remaining steps for this map are

  • Indicate grassland and forest
  • Indicate desert (or just leave areas unmarked by grassland/forest as desert)
  • Continental shelf
  • Arctic coloring


I'm thinking perhaps I may need to just do something different rather than use the Sederan-style vegetation steps. Anyone have any tips/advice?

Here is the pre-vegetation map, and the not-so-good post-vegetation added.