I've started about a million different world maps over my brief (vary, very brief) cartographic career, and abandoned every single one of them.

I can get decent coastlines, or at least what I consider to be decent. I can get decent effects for the water and land--decent, but it could use a little work.

The mountains are killing me. Seriously.

I prefer the hand-drawn look for mountains, rather than the top down beveled style. I don't have a graphics tablet, so that's out. Someone please tell me, how in the heck does one go about getting decent, hand-drawn looking mountains onto a map? Is it as easy as drawing them on paper and scanning them in, albeit with a bit of cleanup, I'm sure? Is there something more to it, or should I just suck it up and beg the wife for a Wacom?

And then there are the trees....