Maps for my planned novel

[laevex_esre]

It looks much better, but I have one question to raise. I'm not a climate expert, but I don't think a lot of foothills would stop the formation of rivers. Water flows downhill, so the only reason that area would become a desert is if it never rains on that side of the mountains. This is entirely possible if your prevailing winds there come from the south, and that would also fit with the forest being in the central area, as that side of the mountain range would get much more rain in that case. You can keep your desert there, but rather than having short rivers, you probably need to just have less rivers.

As I said, I'm no expert on this. So if somebody with more expertise disagrees then you should probably listen to them over me.

Looking good though. I look forward to seeing where you take this next.

[Kelron]

Thank you for the helpfull hints and nice words, I`ll give it another try

UDPATE:
I`ve rearranged the mountain chain for a better placement of the dessert. I think I`ll place the chain more upwards near the swamp to get a bigger dessert. It will not immediately start as a dessert though, I want a barren scrubland slowly becoming a dessert.

Is this placement now more realistic?

[rdanhenry]

If this is a continent, that swamp is incredibly huge.

Also, you want to change the spelling to "desert", a very dry place. "Dessert" is cake, cookies, pie, etc.

[Kelron]

If this is a continent, that swamp is incredibly huge.

Also, you want to change the spelling to "desert", a very dry place. "Dessert" is cake, cookies, pie, etc.

A good point, thanks.

Ah, I see. That are the reasons, why I didn`t manage to get the best marks in english in my A-level *lol*

UPDATE:
After various tries I`ve done a first mountainline. They have different colors for a better effect with the political borders afterwards. I drew a small basic line on another layer and tried to let the mountains follow it for a more realistic touch.

[Greason Wolfe]

Not bad. You seem to be making progress on this. One suggestion I might offer, though, and you may already have it in the works, but the background color for the mountains on that island is a little dark and makes it hard to see the mountain icons. Perhaps lightening it will help them stand-out better. Other than that, it looks like you're on the right track.

GW

[Kelron]

Not bad. You seem to be making progress on this. One suggestion I might offer, though, and you may already have it in the works, but the background color for the mountains on that island is a little dark and makes it hard to see the mountain icons. Perhaps lightening it will help them stand-out better. Other than that, it looks like you're on the right track.

GW

Thank you

I must admit, that I also don`t really like the look of the volcanic island too for the moment. It should be dark, but that is too dark and also consumes pretty much space. This is definitaly a subject to be changed

UPDATE:
I`ve now added some rivers. I`ll have to edit the styleeffects for the marsh and also fix some rivers flowing in the sea.

Are the mountains and the rivers placed well, or should there be more or less?

[zaffu]

I don't see anything technically incorrect regarding the rivers, but a few things look a bit odd. Near the top of the map, there are a few instances where rivers begin directly opposite each other on two different sides of a mountain range. It just looks too regular. There are also some rivers that flow parallel to a coast for quite a long way. Unless there are some hills between the river and the coast that block the river from joining the sea there, you tend to assume the steepest path downhill is more towards the coast than along it.

The mountains look good, though.