I don't prefer the color in the city, but I prefer it on the bridge/castle. I wonder if there's a best of both worlds, for example one where you just apply the contrast between the sky and bridge or just have the rooftops colored, or something. It's a good illustration. Not really a map but it's nice.

Yes, I too feel that about worldbuilding. I have been working on the Almaera setting since, oh gosh, probably 2006 is when the first pieces began to come together--certainly earlier than when I joined the Guild, as I initially posted a map of Almaera, and not even my first map of Almaera (which I do not have, and I never posted) or second (which I will NEVER post... though I think I could find it if I dug through my files). In my mind, the world is a place I can walk through, see the landscapes, touch, smell, hold, run my fingers slowly over the waving sea of grain while remembering it hard enough...

But to get it here, I have to do hard work. Real hard work. And then no one else even knows the setting, and likely they don't even know it exists let alone what it is I'm evoking. But at least with map-making I can get an overview of what I can so easily see and describe in fiction and tangibly hold it in some form in this winnowing place before everything we think and imagine is naught but dust. In the wind. Or tears. In the rain.

Anyway, I love the drawing, be a great business card.