Hi all!

So I recently got a new commission, this time for an island roughly the size of Rhodes, Greece, that looks suspiciously like a turtle... because it is!! Shaxzis is a massive beast that swims through this world's oceans, with an entire society of humans happily living their life on the lush slopes, protected from wind and wave action (caused by the turtles movement) by a ridge of mountains stretching from left (west) to right (east).

The client sent me this sketch:
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And I turned that into the following draft, with ridges in red and thalwegs in blue (not all thalwegs will have rivers in them, hence the use of this wonderful underused word!):
Shaxzis (draft 2).jpg

I have since started shading in the ridges. I'm not very far yet, but I have managed to get some valleys done already, as you'll see here:
Shaxzis (3a).jpg