Looking quite nice alright.

But I'd have to second Rythal's immature comment. *cough* It's not really a problem though, just take a look at the shape of scandinavia.

Other than that it looks really promising.

And the best part is, it's extremely simple to do. All i did was take a parchment texture, inverted the colours to get it blue, then played with hue/saturation levels a bit, and added a few layers above where I painted (set to multiply) over the depths, and lightened over the shallows.
Heh, reminds me of Wayne's World, the scene where Garth considers a way to connect with Mr. Big's limousine. "It' almost too easy."

Keep going!


~~Rongar