Hello all,
It's been a while since I've posted anything on here, and this last project I started a few years ago in lockdown and still haven't finished it
It's been many many hours of work, and I didn't realy appreciate just how big a task I was undertaking (file is 15000 x 9000 pixels, @300DPI) and is my second mapping project. I may have bitten off more than I can chew, but I have been chomping through the work slowly.
I'm posting here for a bit of motivation to myself, and to see the work progress as a thing to look back on.

My first project was all brush based, done with a mouse. I bought a tablet and hand drew this through the computer, and have been learning as I go, teaching myself and refining techniques (most of the reason this has taken over 200 hours so far) and developing my style. My style is somewhat similar to a few of the tutorials (especially the mapping for the artistically challenged!) and I used those brushes as a starting point to try and understand how to draw the various mountain shapes and so forth
So far I have:
Drawn landmass
Drawn rivers
Drawn Mountains
Drawn Hills
Base colour of mountains applied
Started to shadow mountains

Still to go
Features to draw:
Forests
Roads
Cities
Misc - including banner, reliefs etc

Features to colour:
Hills (base, shadows, highlight)
Forests (base, shadows, highlight)
To colour and shade the map as a whole to create a more interesting terrain profile including tundras etc

Other:
Naming places, text etc
Ocean surf/distinct colouration of this
Heraldry for major cities, making nation borders, compass rose

Probably other things I'm forgetting!

Anyway, the current Progress:

Added a base colour for the map to aid visibility

One with the current progress of map map with mountains and hills
WIP hills + mountains colours@0.25x.png
One with just mountains
map WIP colours@0.25x.png
And one with the half way through shading of the mountains
Shading Mountain@0.25x.png

And then a more zoomed in screenshot of one part of the mountain chain
Large Mountain.png

Anyway, hope you enjoy, and hope this keeps me motivated!

Cekkie