First map - practice (hand drawn)

[pervbird]

First attempt, criticism welcomed.

http://fav.me/d9m7yz5

[weitnum]

Looks good, my only critique is the rivers which don't look very realistic. Rivers realistically don't go from coast to coast, they generally flow down from mountains and go into the ocean/sea/lake with only 1 delta. The exception being huge rivers like the nile, which has a whole bunch of special conditions.

[Chick]

Hello pervbird, welcome to the Guild! Very nice for a first map!

There are a couple of tutorials that might help you with problems like those rivers:

How to Get Your Rivers in the Right Place: http://www.cartographersguild.com/showthread.php?t=3822

and
The Most Common Reality Errors:
http://www.cartographersguild.com/sh...ad.php?t=30156

I'll look forward to seeing more from you

[pervbird]

Hey, thanks for help I do appreciate it. I definitely had trouble with the rivers and need more practice. I'll be checking those tutorials out. Thanks again

[Blaidd Drwg]

Good job for a first try

Besides the rivers, I'd recommend working on making your lines more consistent. The forest on the left has thicker lines than the others. Same for the coastline. The linewidth varies a lot (not necessarily bad, btw) and the waves near the shore are almost the same width as the shore itself.
What kind of materials did you use?

[pervbird]

Thanks, I had started with pen and ink and at one point I switched to a brush tip marker. Just experimenting a little to see how it would turn out.

I've been reading about rivers and trying to get a better understanding of them for the future. and will work on the line consistentcy (maybe experiment with the markers on scrap paper first lol)