Oh yeas, Beoner said the most important thing. Practice, but practice doing the right thing. Ofc if you dont want to fix your mistakes you will never learn wut to do right.
When i said number of maps is practicing the right way... days ago i saw a really beuty map. I just got amazed for this... took some days till the first comment, ofc i subscribed in the post to see the comments when BOMB. Ppl saying about the rivers, positioning of towns, was when i noticed that dont need be cool, need to be right! If not the friendly community here, i guess the guy with the map was just to quit, but no, he fixed everthing showing a nice map.

Counlin if u say that took 3 maps for my rivers, other gets 6 and other 2, for sure we can say that at 4 maps ( doing and researching) is a cool number to measure that feature. If i want to do it with less maps, probly i have to focus in certain point. Like be a expert in mountains or shape.

Like i said before, it is just a heathy chat btw you have a funny signature