River experiment

[pasis]

I have been practicing ways to create rivers, but it turned out much harder than I expected. I’ve made so many trials I can’t count. Many of them had something good, but they suck overall. Here is the latest and the best try so far. I constantly run into problems with certain river directions causing it to look like its running uphill. I have tried to compensate with riverbanks but they are not doing the trick.
This is just a small sample from the bigger area I have there. The plan is to have a small village by the river where the mountains open up a bit more forming a decent valley. But it depends if I get the river right first.