Hello cartographers!
Before i had the chance to join the community i was a gis cartographer, maping real world places using mapinfo and illustrator only. After i discovered the never ending source of inspiration provided by the guild i of course wanted to mix an aesthetic approach with "modern" mapping techniques based on GIS.
This map is an attempt to apply aesthetic raster techniques (based on the guild tutorials) to some GIS data of an existing mid sized city, Saintes.
Saintes, Charente-Maritime - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Click image for larger version. 

Name:	Saintes_small.jpg 
Views:	494 
Size:	3.80 MB 
ID:	65116
The map was made with QGIS, wilbur, Photoshop and illustrator. Thx to the cartographers who gently pointed out the things that needed to be improved in the wip thread of the map.