Pirate drawings by... Me!!!

Look what I came across

While looking through the internet for some concept art of pirates, I seem to have encountered Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides - Zombies and Mermaids concept art by Miles Teves.


CLICK HERE >> http://www.itsartmag.com/features/pirateconceptart/ << CLICK HERE

You got to check these wonderful masterpieces of art, all credit to Miles Teves!

Drawings

Here are some sketches of human forms/body parts that I did 2 weeks ago in order to get prepared for my final character drawings.

The Pacific Ocean

The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the world's five oceans (followed by the Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, Southern Ocean, and Arctic Ocean). Strategically important access waterways include the La Perouse, Tsugaru, Tsushima, Taiwan, Singapore, and Torres Straits. The decision by the International Hydrographic Organization in the spring of 2000 to delimit a fifth ocean, the Southern Ocean, removed the portion of the Pacific Ocean south of 60 degrees south.

The Pacific Ocean was sighted by Europeans early in the 16th century, first by the Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa, who crossed the Isthmus of Panama in 1513 and named it Mar del Sur (South Sea). Its current name was given by Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan during the Spanish expedition of world circumnavigation in 1521, who encountered favourable winds as he reached the ocean and called it Mar Pacifico in Portuguese, meaning "peaceful sea".

Location

The Pacific Ocean stretches from Antarctica’s Ross Sea to the Bering Sea off Alaska. Its widest point occurs at approximately 5°N latitude where it reaches from the coast of Columbia on the east to the Malay Peninsula on the west. To the north, the Pacific Ocean is connected to the Atlantic via the Bering Strait at the Arctic Ocean. To the south it joins the Atlantic via the Drake Passage and Strait of Magellan between South America and Antarctica. The Pacific Ocean joins the Indian Ocean via the Strait of Malacca, and is separated from it by the chain of islands that extends from Sumatra to Australia. Canada’s Pacific coast, which stretches for 29,489 kilometres, makes up 11% of Canada’s total coastline.

Island in the Pacific Ocean

Islands

More islands are found in the Pacific than in all of the other oceans combined. Most of these 25,000 islands are huddled near the equator, between the 30°N and 30°S latitudes. Those found to the west including Taiwan, the Philippines, Indonesia, New Guinea and New Zealand, which arise from continental plates. Other South Pacific islands are either volcanic in origin, like the Polynesian islands or are coral islands like those of Micronesia. Canada’s Pacific islands like the Queen Charlotte Islands, the Juan de Fuca Islands, the small Gulf Islands, and the very large Vancouver Island all arise from the Canadian section of the Pacific continental shelf.



Doodles

Just if anyone is interested, about a few days ago before working on my human figure drawing skills, I did some pirate doodle drawings.

Possible inspiration of environment

Above is an example image of 'An Abandoned Island In The Sea of Japan' called Askold, I tend to make my environment look something like this because it is in the middle of the ocean/sea which is the idea of what I am going for.

Birth of the Project

How's it going, my name is Amo and using my Blog account again since 6 months but this time I am going to blogging on my 'concept art' project. In this project everyone (my class) was given a theme/phrase individually and we all have to develop concept drawings of characters, environments and objects that inhabit the world defined by our given phrase.

As it says in the title of this blog, "Ocean" which is my given theme and for my ideas, I've decided to include pirates and particular sea monsters/creatures as my characters, for the environment I'm going with an "Island in the middle of the Ocean" along with a pirate ship.

For starters, I am going to work and improve on my skills of drawing human and creature forms so I'll be prepared for character sketches and research on contents related to my theme.

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