Sugestions?

[flocko]

Very nice looking. I'm a tad conflicted about the coloring. Part of me really likes it and the other part wishes there was more contrast.

Shadows on the rivers may make them fit into the ground better. At the moment they seem to sit on top of the map. At least from up close. But before you go doing that they need to be moved around a bit. Rivers come together as they approach the ocean. They start at various places of high elevation and then merge before reaching the ocean. Think of a tree with its base on the coast and the ends of its branches in the mountains. You also have have several places where the rivers cross each other and flow uphill. This generally won't happen. There will typically be one lowest path and after the rivers meet they will both follow it. The same principle applies to lakes. There will be only one outflow or there will be none. I think your elevations/mountains are depicted very well so it might be effective to just pick random spots on your mountains and "inch by inch" judge where the next lowest elevation is. That should enable your rivers to merge naturally and having them conform to the elevation changes you've already drawn may also take care of that sitting on top thing I mentioned.

[sandtrout]

ty guys, this really helps! i will post an update

[sandtrout]

changed some things -rivers/coastal relief, lakes outflow and fiddled with the color scheme
the central river is giving me headaches... it seems out of place there, dunno why. but is one of those few things bound to the story.

[kirkspencer]

Pretty. The increased contrast helps, though I personally liked the almost-monochromatic you had at first. (No accounting for tastes, I guess).

Which story? One or two people here read and might be able to spot something you've missed in your source.

For the rest, me, I'm bothered by the rivers that appear to flow uphill. If I drew coarse contour lines based on what I'm seeing, I see two primary ridgelines. One is the hard crest at the right edge of the map. The other flows through the three center hills. Yet you've got two sets of water - the south definite, the north probably - crossing the saddle from west to east.

Interestingly you broke that problem for your river to exit to the southeast 'delta'. You've got a clear ridge connecting the center to the right, but you broke it with a canyon.

the delta, by the way, bothers me because alluvial deposits don't usually look like rocky ridges. Rounded hills, maybe. But at least it's a nominal triangle breaking out to the sea.