Thank You Cartographer's Guild

[helium3]

Actually, it's a combination of gimp and inkscape. Essentially, I use gimp to make the coastline, put down an airbrushed layer of black along the coastline in a lower layer, then fill in below that with the ocean pattern. Then I save it as a .png and import it into Inkscape. Once that's done I do a bitmap trace and then simplify the whole thing. That's pretty much it.

Also, I decided to re-jigger the map a bit because I needed to use thinner line strokes for the land features, which looked really wonky with the thick lines used for the coast and sea.

[helium3]

Made changes to the pattern that makes up the sea feature, added the Gam Jo River and started penning in the Tallwall Mountains.

[helium3]

Added in the rest of the Tallwall mountains. My next task is to figure out how to shade them and fill them with color in a way that matches the style of the rest of the map.

I also need to work on that lake, since it doesn't match the ocean for some reason.

[RobA]

I would keep the lake like the river, concentric lines rather than horizontal lines.

-Rob A>

[helium3]

I'll try that and see how it turns out.

[pyrandon]

Looking great!

[helium3]

Changed how the lake looks and added shading to the mountains. I'm still not sold on the river, but I think I just need to do the lines a few times until I get one that I like.