Help Getting Started on a Board Game Design?

[Yarric9]

Hello forumfolks,

I am in the midsts of designing a board game, and want to move from basic prototype to an actually decent looking map. I will likely make a request post as well, but also want to try my own hand at it. The game would be a Risk-esque world map with provinces, and I was inspired by maps like these http://www.cartographersguild.com/al...chmentid=43228, a simple and elegant style like the Risk maps of old. Would anyone be able to point me to a good tutorial that would lead to a similar style? I am not an artist, but have used GIMP at least in a basic fashion.

I did look at a few of the tutorials here, and some seemed promising (like Ascension's Antique-style tutorial) but I couldnt find anything yet that was a better match.

Let me know if there is content I should include in this post, and thank you for the help!