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Submitted: November 15, 2012
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More work for my animation major this year at LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore. I'm falling behind in my submission requirements and am short several necessary landscape sketches and studies, so I'm scrounging what I can from my sketchbook and gussying it up for presentation. This is one of those attempts.

These are older drawings by now, and the first attempt at drawing Louis's ship 'Celeste', let alone a cross section, and I am still sort of futzing around with the colors. It's garish and gold-gilded everywhere, that's all I know. Because Louis is a Baroque dandy like that. There are a hundred bajillion things wrong with this and oh my god I hate drawing ships why do pirates have to live on them so much but I don't have time to nitpick right now and she doesn't even appear in the final animation so there.

Louis names her after his niece.

--Sak
Louis Despatis and Co. © Myself, Shamine A. King
For LASALLE, College of the Arts, Singapore

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*Canadian-Rainwater Nov 21, 2012 Student Filmographer

They look like they're very handy.

~Murielle Nov 22, 2012

Oh they are. Especially for military/naval reference, which is their main focus. I really like some of their books about ancients because they also include some of the non-military aspects for the sake of better understanding. Also doesn't hurt that one of my favorite artists (Angus McBride) did a number of their books.

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*Canadian-Rainwater Dec 23, 2012 Student Filmographer

WOULDN'T YOU KNOW. I found a SHELF full of Osprey books at a store here ... AND NONE OF THEM WERE FOR THE TIME PERIOD I NEED. *sob*

~Murielle Dec 23, 2012

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! ;A;

~DragonoftheMoon13 Nov 16, 2012 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

wooot! dude, LOVE the boat!

~leeannett Nov 16, 2012 Student Artist

don't be so hard on ur self it looks beautiful and the gold seahorse is a new and lovely Addison u don't see very often

~kiolia Nov 16, 2012

Frankly, there ain't nobody out there who knows anything about drawing sailing ships. Well, that's an exaggeration (since I do!) but old sailing ships are preposterously complicated machines. Sailing is one of those subjects that people think they understand intuitively because it looks simple, but ... they don't. The good thing is, since nobody knows anything about old sailing ships, you can get away with a lot. I can tell you this from experience. I can also tell you from experience that if you do decide to get even halfway knowledgeable about them, it's going to eventually make you cringe at most paintings of ships and every ship in a movie for you, ever, except maybe in Master and Commander. If you need references, by the way, I'd suggest trying to lay hands on a stack of WoodenBoat magazines. It wouldn't cover a ship from this era, but they're chock full of gorgeous photos and references galore. Another very good reference tool would be models -- the good wooden kinds you see in museums, not the ones you get at hobby lobby for your mantel -- it just so happens that you can find PDF manuals of some of those models for free online. (Google "rattlesnake ship model manual" and one should pop up first thing for you).

*Canadian-Rainwater Nov 21, 2012 Student Filmographer

Good lord! That was a frighteningly detailed manual! Thanks very much for the feedback. I love and loathe ships all at the same time, their construction, shapes, and all that rigging baffle me! I'll definitely keep all your suggestions in mind when I revise this more in future.

~kiolia Nov 30, 2012

Glad it was helpful! The construction and rigging actually start to make sense when you get a chance to dig into them a little. At first, though, it all looks like a big blooie because there are so many pieces or "systems" packed in with each other. Square-rigged ships were extremely high-tech for their time!

~KimmiComics Nov 16, 2012 Student Digital Artist

woah, you did some real good research

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