I look for inspiration in a number of places; one of them is the mapping impulse we all seem to have and that manifests itself in a number of ways - including things like the hand-drawn map association. I’m not sure exactly what’s going on with these maps below but they seem loosely tied to fantasy fiction and gaming from the 80s.  In any case they’re beautiful.

The artist is Ivan E Ramirez, and he’s on Deviantart as psyekl here.