Volcanic Island-Suggestions

Just the other day a friend of mine enlightened me to many aspects of the editor used in terraining. With this knowledge I've discovered my interest in terraining. I would really appreciate any suggestions to make my work better. Below is a picture of a Volcanic Island inhabited by a group of trolls that I have been working on.

i like the idea, needs some touches tho, first its flat.......uhh exept the volcano ^_^ , i know its a beach, but the volcano is probably too small, might want to enlarge the volcano then make the island around it.
maker mroe shrubs around the the trees on the right, they look kinda bare. also maybe put some troll huts :D

Thanks for your suggestions. I've attached another picture where I tried to incorporate some of your ideas. I added some varying altitudes (slight, just minor raises and dips) and surrounded the volcano with land since that does make more sense. I also added lodging and more shrubbery.

much better, i still feel the volcano is too small, try to scale everything down a bit, to make the volcano look bigger

Does this seem big enough? I raised the volcano as high as I could and then made all the inhabitants and doodads smaller. I also added some beach out in front and moved everything out some since the volcano was taking up more space.

great that looks real nice :D now jus smoth out the beach ^_^

Is this what you meant? I made the water to land area a little less spastic and more flowing and rounded.

nice, looks much better

Ok! ^_^ Thanks for helping me so much and giving me some awesome advice. I'm really happy with my terrain now, it looks so much better than before. :D

glad i couold help

I still think that you should have some more tile variation, use the grassy dirt tile some at least

yeh that could help were the trees are

There needs to ba a crater in the center of the volcano. Also have the volcano be not so cone shaped, add some hieght variation to it.

The lava seems to stop there, at the edge of the volcano, just like that.
Also, you should add more lava around the crater of the volcano, it seems weird to see just two lines dripping from the crater, like it felt like erupting, but changed it's mind and drooled out some lava.

Good terrain though .

you dont really see volcano emerging form sand, you see them emerging from hills, so their should be mini mounatins around it. i had a 5 min shot at a volcano (no doodads) and im relativly pleased with the resust
img and map attached