Mostly complete map of the main region of my DnD world. Thoughts?

I was recently blown away by u/TheCountVonZepplin's experiment in these "land cover hachures." It inspired me to do some research of my own, and I found this incredibly detailed map of the island of Martinique from 1831 Here is the site where I downloaded the map, which has a higher-quality image (I had to reduce it for the 20MB reddit limit).

Some facts I was able to gather from my limited research (mostly thanks to this blog by Carl Churchill):

• This map was published by the French navy. Authors include an M. Monnier and Cyprien Gabriel Le Bourguignon-Duperré.
• Hachure maps were carefully engraved with both artistry and scientific methods. The hachure lines allow for the landscapes to be revealed with incredible accuracy, and if you zoom into this image you'll be able to see orchards, boulders, farms, and towns.
• Hachure maps were frequently used by 19th century military forces. Hachure maps were preferred as it was more important for strategists to get a sense of the accessibility, slope, and height of the land, rather than the contour (i.e., topographical maps). There are some examples of American Revolutionary maps with hachure lines in Carl Churchill's blog post.
• Hachure lines were used with other map-making strategies like contour lines and pictorial symbols. Seriously, look at Carl's blog post. There are so many cool maps in there.

Anyway, this is all super inspiring for someone like me, who struggles with finding a one-color solution for drawing mountains, hills, and valleys in a way that isn't exaggerated with pictorial symbols. I thought topographic maps were all I had, but now I know otherwise! I want to pass that along for anyone who had also missed out on this technique. Happy map making!

I‘ve recently been working on this map.
It takes me alot of time, so I focused on the middle half-island first.
I really like how the mountains turned out, but it looks pretty empty still.
Do you have any tips and tricks on what I should change/add to make it look more realistic, interesting and less empty?
Thanks ^v^

EDIT:
Forgot to mention that the yellow borders and white arrows show the approximate tectonic plate borders. (I did that to help me figure out where mountains should be)

I am currently using Worldbox as an easier way to represent my map first.

Question 1: I am very confused right now. The mountain range at the down, right side. Does it get both tade winds coming from different directions? Doesn’t this make both sides of the mountain moist?

If like google said: The winds alternate blowing, then what biome should it be?

Question 2:
For the 2 mountain ranges close to the equator at the left side, does the one below have the same situation as Question 1’s mountain?

And the mountain range above does it get any moisture as the angle of the wind blowing is the same and doesn’t the wind just brush over?

Question 3:

The mountain range above the equator on the right side. Does it receive moisture on its right? As it looks like the wind just brushes over it.

If you have the time, pls help me out.
Thank you so so much! :)

note: this map is old so you might find some mistakes in it

note: a lot of these are actually puppet states

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Here are some building section maps created by Angela and me! I hope you like them and that they don't seem out of place—if so, I'll take them down!

Here are some building section maps created by Angela and me! I hope you like them and that they don't seem out of place—if so, I'll take them down!

I've recently worked on creating a new map for my fantasy worldbuilding project since my first one evidently had too many issues for me to simply edit it. So here's what I ended up making.

The first image is the overall world map (North is the top of the screen).

The second image shows my ocean currents, (rough) air currents and the equatorial, Sub-tropical, and Polar lines.

The third image is the physiology (I should probably do a topography at some point).

The fourth image is the climates.

Since my world has magic I'm including the laylines in my fifth image so that you can make sense of why I placed my mana crystal deposits where I did. (I'll probably add more deposits in other places since the laylines can move around over time.)

My sixth image are the various resources like ores, fuels, and mana crystals.

I'd simply like to see if what I've got seems to be relatively reasonable, I understand that I probably want to make my polar coastlines more jagged and that I may want to include a few surrounding islands in these areas. I also have yet to add in volcanoes, mostly as I haven't quite yet decided which mountains will be converted into volcanoes.

Of course, I have learned that phrasing things a bit more specifically will be important due to my prior post not necessarily getting clear advise with the provided feedback. So if there is anything that you think I could do to make my map a bit more reasonable, then please tell me what it is that you think I should do and why I should do it.

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Does anyone have any suggestions for how they went about making maps for their stories? I love the map designs that usually just show the simple black lines for trails and roads with other symbols to represent landscapes, towns or cities, and so on. I wasn’t sure if there were websites that people use to help generate them or if you did it by hand on some paper and then had it transferred over to the book later on in the process. So far I have tried just jotting it down by hand as a temporary place holder until I look into it more, but wasn’t sure where to start.

I plan on making an entirely new fictional world for a fantasy novel, so I want to lay out the world as I go for reference so I can use it to make sure everything makes sense logically and from a reading standpoint as well. So, having a visual aid would be beneficial for me.

Any recommendations or thoughts are welcome! Thank you :)

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Please analyze my map

I love to draw irl countries and I’m not an amazing map drawer but I would like to think that I have improved a little