My first real attempt at a map.

[Korash]

For Canyons I would look for a tut by Torstan. He has a thread here where he goes into his techniques for that. I don't have the time ATM to find it but if you search the tut thread you should be able to.

[Pestilence]

update on my progress, steered away from the finials and the decorations for a bit in order to get back to the actual mapping, let me know what you think. My client is just telling me to "Do what you want" so i need suggestions

Changelog:
Added centralized lake for
Added tributaries
Added secondary mountain range in southeast
added first major forest
added hill area in southeast

[Korash]

While I like your trees individually, I think that you have placed them WAY too uniformly. With the tree symbol you are using I would space them out more, and place them a bit more randomly. Clumped together as they are it is hard to see that it IS a forest and that they ARE trees, and by spacing them the trees will be more identifiable, while still giving the impression of Forest. With the scale of Trees and Mountains, I think it would be clear that each individual tree icon represents a large area of forest and many icons close together represents a continual forest, even if they are not on top of each other.