Bonjour mes amis! (Pardon my French)

It's been a long time since I have done a proper WIP thread so I figured I'd do one for a map that I started today.

This is just a personal project and style test. I'm going to try an emulate a 16th or 17th century map style similar to this. And what better place to use for that, than my own world of Hothachar?! This map will focus on the Garykia Kingdom and the City-State Union.

So I started with pulling my Hothachar, ripped bare, into G.Projector and project it in an Equidistant Conic projection. This is what I came up with.
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Then I just traced the original coastlines, nothing that's actually interesting...
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Finally I settled for a texture and added some colour to the land and sea. At this stage the map is already starting to look like something decent, I like to believe (:
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Next stages are to add an ocean texture of thousands of little dots (jippy...) and laying our the mountains and hills.

As always, let me know your thoughts!