Hi all,

this is my first day at the guild and I was looking through many of your great tutorials, ideas and tools! So I just used my holiday from work to try a little mapping project by myself:

I used the map of Tamriel (from "The Elder Scrolls") to start with an already given geography. To challenge myself a bit, I want try to map Tamriel in the great D&D ForgottenRealms Mapstyle.

Here is, what I could manage so far:

Tamriel_STYE.jpg

I'm pretty happy with things working till this point and using some of your brushes, some Photoshop filtering/blending and some handpainting, it took not as long as I had imagined. But now the harder parts will follow I think. Does anyone have a good idea for filling that mountains in an appropriate style? The only chance of something possibly fitting I could think of, is drawing by hand. But maybe someone has a brush/pattern idea for that?

I'm looking forward to some ideas, comments and critiques and I will keep you up to date with further progress of the map.

Your
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