In the summer of 1588, one hundred and thirty ships carrying 30,000 men set out to conquer England.This is my vision of the glorious moment when the fleet is leaving Lisbon. In the foreground is the flagship San Martin. Ships design is based on reference plans that I could find on net. But its not much there about those spanish galleons of this age. So I must use my imagination

All is done in photoshop, +wacom, in about 20-30 hours

better quality pic (1.3MB) because this above is too jpg.
http://avor.konzum.sk/images/armadaHQ.jpg

P.S. I have created this pic as a tribute to all the drowned sailors, both spanish and english in this sad enterpise.