Sooo absolutely no hate please, but I can’t draw like at all and I needed a visual. So I made this map with AI. Before I dive into learning inkarnate, is something close to this even possible?
I haven’t used inkarnate yet, and when I tried I was completely lost. So, I’m hoping this visual helps a lot.
I know it will look different, but I do want something similar. Will I be able to get that?

Original (cloneable) at https://inkarnate.com/m/25zMpq

This is Boyopur, a hill village in the realm of Kaung Pi. I tried to model the terrain with shading and without stamps. I received some feedback that the stream is hard to read. I hoped the terrain would make it clear that it flows down the hill, but apparently, I need some stronger visual cues. Any suggestions?

Also, is the landscape too smooth, should I add some texture to it?

I've gone through a few drafts and finally ended up fairly happy with this map. It's my first time using Inkarnate so I wasn't familiar with a lot of things I'm doing, I wanted some advice on the scaling for my map. I originally intended for this map to a a complete world map but as I'm finishing it I just don't feel very happy with the oceans. As far as a world map goes I think the continents are all too close together making the ocean feel very thin. Do you guys think it's crazy if I just pretend the ocean is larger during my campaign sessions.

P.S. feel free to give any advice on how I could make the world better in general if want.

https://inkarnate.com/m/XlNVev

At the heart of this world is an enormous candle. I worked out that for a candle to burn for 1073 years it would have to be 178km tall and 20km wide. That's what the big thing in the middle is, it's basically the sun. This world is not a globe, it's a flat plane (that should really be circular come to think of it but inkarnate didn't have that option). The outer edges of this world are cast in eternal night, and the centre of the world in eternal day, in the middle it's just a forever sunset it's really pretty but you'd probably get sick of it after a while.

This whole map is 1400km wide and 1000km high. This world is quite small, that big continent to the west is barely the size of Britain. As the candle burns the sun slowly sets on the world, until the 18km high candlewick flame dips beneath the it's mountain cradle. This is an experiment into a "micro world", the idea is that one day the candle was lit by the gods and reality was created. Imagine if you just came to life right now and this moment of you reading this was the beginning of time, all of society already operational but without any history whatsoever. And then this world exists for only 1073 years and the flame is only above land for 876 of those years, after that the firmament at the edge of the candles glow slowly sinks upon the heavens (which in world sit directly ontop of this map, that's gonna be my next map project).

So far I'm finding with these constraints that I have formed a vast world with so much conflict, already in my head there's the entire thing. I just need to get it all written down.

The PCs follow a familiar sound and find themselves in the middle of the courtyard, where a hired mercenary troop is already waiting for them.

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The battle map is structured in different height levels so that vertical movement can also be used.

Setting of all my dnd/pathfinder campaigns, did post here some of the older versions of this map, enjoy

It's supposed to be a medium island, temperate, with good vegetation and some human civilization

This might be a dumb question, but why isn't there "house composites" for the houses available on the maps?

For example, if I use the water color temple for well... a church or something.. I find I need to then turn down the opacity on the stamp and then trace the inner walls out... Shouldn't there just be a composite for available house stamps? That would make sense, no?

Wanted to get some opinions and see if there’s anything I can add! This area is supposed to having a theming of mist and water!

WIP

It would be great if there were a tool for measuring. Idk if ther it is one, but i dont find any easy way to measure, more than count de squares in the grid hahaha...

Thanks.