I got started by putting together a hide texture. It's a combination of several textures, some my own hand-made stuff, a couple from Shutterstock and...
I'm thinking of something like the map from Cyberpunk. Using a nap that blackens the water and uses a rough topography layer with just an overlay of...
Here's some WIP shots, as promised. The first image is the aforementioned random brushwork I did with my eyes closed, the rest is what followed from...
My first thought also but then I thought about color. I'll see if I can pull it off with the land colored and will just erase the problematic ones if...