The image was vectored and I made heavy use of patterns and textures. The patterns on Doa's kimono and hakama are indeed patterns I took from MetalGearSolid.org and cleaned up, I adore them.
Doa's pose in this scan is just awesome, maybe you notice how the s-shaped symbol is not only present on her clothes and weapon but also in her pose, somehow even in the flow of her coat. Words can't express my love for this scan anymore.
The background was a real hazzle, I just couldn't decide what kind of abstract shapes too use, I was really torn there, should I use smoke, brushes,...
In the end I decided to use some flowers from my unfinished vector of this scan plus some more texture and because I'm really untalented in choosing and placing text I simply left that out. The only question that's left to me is how I still manage to come up with calm, drained colours when I start out with a bright, colourful scan and the set intention to do something bright and colouful? It's beyond my comprehension.
Textures and patterns were taken from: DA!, Hybrid-Genesis and Deviantart.

Hope you enjoy this a little.