Thanks, MPG! I have viewed all of the Fantastic Maps tutorials and agree that they're, well, fantastic. I just didn't like the top-down look for mountains on this particular map and wanted to go with a mixed perspective.
For sure, aeshnidae, and the mixed perspective works really well on the Brynhall map; I have a world map I've been working on for an age and the perspective question kept troubling me...until I decided to just do what came natural - its a bronze age world, I chided myself, not modern...so I just got on with drawing what felt right. Mind you...watching MR. Fantastic Maps made me work a damn sight harder on the finished product than I had been.
"Mind is Emergent of Matter"
I have also had to remind myself that I'm mapping a fantasy world and that getting everything 100% "right" by modern standards is really not necessary. Medieval cartographers used mixed perspectives quite frequently!
Is your world map posted somewhere on Cartographer's Guild? I just saw your Na-Du map and love it!
Very glad you liked the Na-Du map, its a bit of a load-stone for me in that its taken me ten years to get that far, and I know I can make it look better...but its all about time and effort put in I reckon, and life just gets distracting from fantasy sometimes, damn it! Here's the last draft of the world map, currently under a massive revision to bring it in line with the much revised world view for a book, which is in its fifty tenth revision...blah...blah..(.good grief I'm still writing!) and what I learnt on Fantastic YouTube tutorials You know the score, I reckon: just not enough time in the day!
"Mind is Emergent of Matter"
Ooh, I like it! Great map, MPG! And yes, life gets hectic and interferes with fantasy cartography. I haven't been able to participate in the monthly Cartographer's Guild challenges because work is incredibly busy and we recently adopted a super energetic dog (he's not yet 2 so he's still got the puppy crazies).