Ink and Parchment Style Regional Map

[Alecthar]

I think you'd be better served to be more sparse with the wave texture for the seas. As it is now it tends to draw the eye away (for me anyway) from the other portions of the map.

Yeah, I'm having trouble with saying "water is here" in the ocean areas of the map, without making it look, well, kinda bad. Working on it though. Maybe a nice cloudy layer mask will help clear things up.

Edit: Yeah, or not. When in doubt, make the waves a brush and distribute in a way that looks good. What do you think? I'll make more wavy patterns in GIMP for the brush next time, but how does that work...maybe stylistically is the word I want to use? You get my meaning.