Mapping Options

[katasu]

Okay so I need help mapping something. So far I think I've done good work on my three maps, but this fourth one I just seem to do. I need help mapping a forest. It'll be going horizontal and it's a snow forest. I want it to be big enough so that battle's will take place but not every 2 steps. Yet I don't want it so big that you'll have to run back out before getting to the otherside. Can someone point me in the right direction or something. Help will be appreciated. Thanks!

[X-M-O]

I'm not personally the greatest when it comes to mapping, I mean I really only tried my hand at it briefly because the team I was making games with already had an excellent mapper, lol.

I do know what looks good, but getting it to look that way is another story.

What I would try to do, is look at a helicopter view of whatever it is I'd be attempting to map. Then try to make it look something like that (using that as a guide, basically).
Not sure if that is helpful though. ^^