Trying to refine my Hand drawn map making skills. Thoughts?

[Midgardsormr]

Your lettering is awesome! It looks like a pretty good start. I'm not sure about the uniform mountain symbol. It's not bad, but using the same mountain over and over seems like it's evading the strength of a hand-drawn approach, which is that you're not tied to using a brush or stamp.

Think about a wider tributary network for the rivers, and think about letting them meander a bit more. The high-frequency jitter is pleasing to the eye, but the longer ones are still quite straight overall.

What are you planning for settlement symbols?

[Redleg]

Yea I agree. I don't like the mountains either. The problem is though, that's the area I need the most practice in, so I'm working on better mountains. Thanks for the tips on rivers and whatnot. As for the settlement symbols, probably just standard dots, with larger ones signifying capitals, forts, ect. Any ideas on more ornate symbols for the cities and whatnot?

I've also been getting into Calligraphy lately, but being a left-hander, its taking a little longer to get a grasp on it. I would like to incorporate some minor calligraphy into my map, but I need to practice quite a bit before I implement something like that into one of my maps. The script I'm practicing is a modified Tolkien/LOTR one of sorts.