This piece was done in pencil , then scanned, then painted in PS. We were doing a community project for bookmarks over on the Cartographers Guild. It sort went a bit over board. But it was fun. I just did variations for the fun of it.
The name is a funny twist that a friend suggested. The scan was pic206 and I had no name yet for this region, as I normally do.
She thought pic206 sounded like some alien species doing a fly-over just recording world data on some off-world survey.
So I went with the name under the thought that this was just a snapshot form a global survey probe...
one with nice hand rendering techniques. Cus.. aliens can do all sorts of cool stuff, right?