Creating a map for my novel

[FAHall]

Hey Guys,

I've added the majority of my hills, forest, and marshes.

The big chunk in the middle of my map is fields/farmland. I've got some nice brushes for farmland, and I think if I throw in a some sparse tress that I'll get a nice field effect. Right now the area looks blank, but I don't want to clutter my map either.

Not sure how this will look though.

I am also considering creating a big chasm in the midst of the field area, but I am unsure how to create this effect and make it look like it blends in with the rest of the map.


Anyways, let me know what you all think and if you have any suggestions.

(As mentioned above, coloring will be the LAST step for me, as I will need lots of help with it... colorblind)

Next steps as I see them:

1. Finish up fields and make chasm
2. Tidy up all vegetation and land features
3. Mark settlements.
4. Map roads
5. Mark places of interest
6. Recolor everything and make it all prettier.
7. Labeling


As a side note, the style of my tree/marsh brushes don't seem to quite fit with my mountains and hills. Do you all see this as clearly as I do, or am I imagining things?

[Ascension]

Nice lookin swamp there. Everything else looks good as well.

[Diamond]

As a side note, the style of my tree/marsh brushes don't seem to quite fit with my mountains and hills. Do you all see this as clearly as I do, or am I imagining things?

Yeah. I think it's a matter of crispness. If you could slightly blur the forest icons to match the fuzziness of the mountains, it might mesh better. Actually, scratch that. What about putting a slight color layer under the forests? Just a pale gray undertone to kind of give the woods more body?

But that's a minor gripe. It's a wonderful map.