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Had fun with this one. Made using my latest free brush set, Ishikawa.

I do not recommend laying this many western characters vertically, but I wanted to evoke some of the elements from Ishikawa’s original source and decided I was okay with it being a little illegible.

Few other bits: the location names were taken from various places and points of interest on Hokkaido. The font I used is a modified version of Bizmo (I added the arms on the I's and J's so it balanced a bit better) which was licensed from Envato Elements. The paper texture is from True Grit Texture Supply’s Infinite Pulp, and they’re also where I got Atomica, which gives me the print effects for the text. Water color effect was done with Kyle's Watercolor brushes (They're free from Adobe). The boar illustration in the key is from an 1857 woodblock print by Utagawa Yo****ora and is available for free on Deviant Art.