I was downloading some art books and while browsing trough them I noticed this amazing book from Sumi Keiichi, it's only afterwards that I saw that the pictures were also here ^_~.

I took the picture that immediately become one of my favorites and started playing around with brushed and colors. I decided to create something that would look old and a bit mythical. So used some stock images from maps and the parts of old books.
In the end I gave it a more sepiac look and added the text.