This one has been an experiment and a half! I decided to try a few different things, which is what the challenges are all about, I suppose. I haven't posted a WIP before now, cos I was faffing about so much with the non-mappy bits. I thought I should at least have a map to show before I started a thread.

Overall, I'm viewing it as an advertising poster or promotional flyer for a novel. Something along those lines. There'll be some story text at the bottom. I need to rewrite what I had originally written, cos somewhere along the way I decided it would be mad cool if the girl had glowing balls and sparkly magicky bits around her hands. So now I need to make my story fit. She's supposed to a 'princess in exile' type character metaphorically 'surveying her realm'. It's all dreadfully cliché, but fear not, gentle reader, there are only about three paragraphs of text, not a whole novel.

Originally I had a dark blue land colour, and it looked great against the sea & sky, but I guess there's a reason people don't use very dark land masses very often. My light-coloured lines for the mountains looked too 'glowy' and it didn't fit. If I'd been mapping some sort of ghostly/other worldly realm it would have looked good, but not here. So I redid it in a greeny/blue colour which, in truth, I don't like as much, but I couldn't make it work otherwise. The green blobs will be forests, and obviously they're still to be done. I also need to add more labels for rivers, forests & mountains. It's been made in Affinity Designer, so it's mostly all vector, with some use of the program's 'pixel persona' which lets you draw with raster brushes.

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