[WIP] The Construction of Acean

[Feybrad]

Hello again, Cartographers!

After a good month of sporadic work and a lot of questioning myself, I have arrived at an elevation map for my world "Acean". It's plate tectonics I ran by the community in this thread, and I got some good advice out of this. I ultimately decided against a long form modeling of the tectonic history of the planet, since the system of magic I am developing for this world and universe impacts it in quite significant ways - a comment in that thread mentioned my world being very geologically active (especially considering the fact that it has much less surface oceans than earth) and while this originally made me reconsider my layout, the magic I defined (even before I began working on the layout of the world) gave me a perfect explanation (and, let's be honest here, an excuse to spare myself that step).

So, without further ado, I present my draft of an elevation map.
A few words to this: I considered using some fractal generator and while that would certainly make the whole world look more realistic, I find myself feeling like worlds and shapes generated by these just sort of "blend" into each other and stop being memorable to me. Thus, I drew all of this by "hand", which hopefully allows it to be somewhat distinct as far as "style" is concerned. That said, if you have any feedback toward that aspect, please do not hold back.

Deepwater Horizon, the first.png

Have a nice day,
Feybrad


Another Point to note: I plan on adding rivers and lakes at a later point. I plan on creating a climate map first to see which of the mountain ranges will likely have glaciers (which is mostly relevant in the equatorial regions).

[Feybrad]

Going off of my elevation map, I created a map for my oceanic currents as well.
Note here, that I did this in two ways - smaller lines, closer to the coast, following it's structures more closely; and further out, bigger and more streamlined.
I also elected to follow pixie's tutorial more closely than azelor's outline - mostly since I feel like it is easier to follow, but also since it provides some abstractions useful to me, as there are some significant differences between my world and earth (less tilt for example, as well as a bit of a planetary ring, which will certainly make things interesting once I get around to temperatures).

Currently streaming, the first.png

Edit: Of course, since I am still too lazy for legends:
Red currents are flowing away from the equator, carrying relatively warm water.
Blue currents are flowing toward the equator, carrying relatively cold water.
Black currents are flowing more or less parallel to the equator, carrying water of the same temperature as surrounding waters.