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Wednesday, 6 May 2009

What heppened next?

I was then stuck about what to do next, i had my heart set on an airship which my character would use to do piracy with, this was during the Easter break when i was at home with my family. I don't normally work very well under those conditions as i don't like to be disturbed while i work, but i kept going with it anyway.

I started two paintings at the same time, but as they both related to each other i think it worked quite well and it kept me going, stopped me from slacking and wondering what to do next. I wanted to do this ship from two very different angles, one from on the deck and a well presented orthographic painting. Before i started however i did a bit of research into oriental boats to give me an idea of how to integrate a sense of the exotic into my design, so i looked at dhows, Baghlahs and Chinese junks. The arabic Dhow style would have been most commonly used in the ports of india at the time, and pretty much used all over the Indian ocean.
I didn't feel i needed to make a lot of thumbnails for the design of my ship, i did a couple in my sketch book before deciding on one i liked from what i didn't like from all the ones i drew, a small and light one, i had a choice between an airship and a sea ship, so i decided, why not both!

My idea is a small dhow with a few zepelins and two fold out wings to help it into the air, it can take off vertically like a hot air balloon or it can take a run up, just like a Harrier Jump Jet.

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