My 1st World Map - Advice and Critique welcome

[Stìophan]

Hey guys, I was just wondering if anyone could spare a few moments to give me some feedback for my world map - world of Xeon (pronounced ['xeɔn]). I've been mainly using Photoshop and following Artifexian's videos thus far.

Any advice would be welcome

Xeon - Tectonic Plates-v1.2_small.png

[Harrg]

Hey! Hurray, another tectonic geek.
All in all, this is a good start. The tectonic model seems logical to me. I'm not quite sure where Skardhyr is heading. If he is moving towards Quruma, then you should reconsider the types of the border. Somewhere there will be a fault. My main comment concerns the coastline, it does not correspond to tectonics. You expect to see similar landforms around continents that once collided and then disintegrated. Like the west coast of Africa and the east coast of South America for example. Island arcs or mountains like the Andes are also expected to be seen along the subduction line, where subduction goes under the continental crust.
Best of all, in terms of tectonics, you got the east coast of Osmor, where you were inspired by the east coast of Eurasia.

[Stìophan]

Thanks Harrg, yes I must admit I love tectonics! Regarding Osmor, I was initially wanting a 'Sakhalin' style island then before I knew it I had Kamchatka as well! Other shapes I borrowed are Baffin Island (the main landmass in Fjordhaerne) and Sognefjord (Norway), the main gulf on the west coast of Skardhyr.

Skardhyr was meant to be heading towards Qaruma and Osmor rifting from it, but looks like I need to rework that. So regarding the coastlines, is there any in particular or do you mean all of them in general?

[johnvanvliet]

it looks like it is in equal area simplecylindrical projection and maps to a sphere well
so a very good start

keep up the good work

[Stìophan]

Many thanks johnvanvliet, Gplates was the star of the show there!

[Harrg]

I mean the following. Most likely, island volcanic chains will appear along all active subduction zones. This will already greatly affect the coastline. For example along the northern and eastern subduction zone (?) Tyraethos. The same will probably happen along the Qashqavad subduction zone (there will probably even be mountains similar to the Andes) and so on. All this will greatly affect the landforms.
P.S. The eastern outlines of Jordhaerne will most likely coincide with the western outlines of Skadhyra as the mentioned coasts of Africa and South America.
You can of course ignore me, this is your world, do what you like.

[Stìophan]

Thanks Harrg, Tyraethos (and Lindhaenes) were actually taken from another project (which I did using the Saderan tut) and I did try to make the coast of Qashqavand echo it, must admit Skardhyr and Fjordhaerne does need looking at. I will definitely be adding some island groups along the subduction zones.

Many thanks again for the advice.

[Stìophan]

Here's an updated version based on pointers from Harrg and some revisions I thought of myself. Can anyone advise if it works? Many thanks in advance.

Xeon - Tectonic Plates-v1.3a_small.png

[Marcolino]

I like your map.

its my impression or Skardhyr look a little bit liek east europe? And Tyraethos look like our globe, in a mini scale.

[Stìophan]

I like your map.

its my impression or Skardhyr look a little bit liek east europe? And Tyraethos look like our globe, in a mini scale.

Many thanks indeed, I never thought of Skardhyr looking like Eastern Europe but it's funny when you take a second look, the east coast is influenced heavily by Eastern Asia as I liked the shape of Sakhalin but ended up doing a Kamchatka style peninsula as well ... I borrowed a few other shades from Earth as well such as Baffin Island.