Hello All!

This is my first post in the forum! It's a pleasure to meet you all, I'm so inspired by the maps posted here! I'm a long time D&D nerd and thought a few weeks ago I'd try my hand at mapping for my new campaign. This is my third attempt, having done a world map and another localized map!

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I havent even started on the land yet, but I'm having a lot of difficulty rendering the coastline in the bottom left, I'm going for a sort of hybrid blend between a photo-realistic satelite image and a watercolor represenation and no matter what I do, I cant seem to get the water to blend with the sand in a way that looks ~natural~. Ive tried adding little squiggly highlights along the shore to make it look like the waves coming in, but it looks terrible! I dont suppose anyone here can point out what I'm doing wrong? I dont really have an eye for drawing!