On the version of this I have been halfheartedly working on (busy real life week), I just moved the river layer up and it looks alright. I am thinking I am just going to start this over, try to find another way of going about it. A lot of my coastline was mutated the way that I hand drew it, and I am not entirely happy about that. But, that's what learning is all about, no?

Here is what the b/w contrast I made from the handdrawn looks like: you can really see how much detail in the coast was lost.
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