Ewlah - a continental map

[Rik]

That is impressive!

How have you achieved the relief look of the mountains though? Have you drawn rivers by hand or have you generated them somehow? I'm really curious about your technique Would you share it with us?

Basically, because I'm crap at artistic stuff, I cheated.

Most of my time on this iteration of the map has been spent on developing a detailed greyscale elevation map thingy of the continent - after which it was dead easy to use a mixture of emboss and blur functions to generate the mountains. Then I added some layers to make the map more colourful.

I've drawn all the rivers by hand, using the elevation map thingy as a guide to ensure water only flows downhill. I admit to getting a bit carried away with the tributaries; I'm planning to cull a lot of them at some point ...