I've spent the last few months going from sketchbook to sketchbook and never managing to get very far in any of them. I don't know if it's motivation or an unease with the books themselves, but I finally seemed to find a nice thin 8.5x11 sketchbook that I'm liking so far. Anyway I led this new sketchbook with drawings for a pirates-in-airships idea I haven't really touched since high school that I called "Freebooters". And now here they are, scanned and coloured for viewing pleasure.
I started of with a few sketches of the captain, the main hero of this story, cpt. Marcus, as well as a drawing of his ship, the Sparrow. I can't even count how many versions of the Sparrow there are spread across however many high school sketchbooks I kept. They range from more ship-like to more plane-like but the design I always liked was almost what I have drawn above, with the sails on the side and that lowered area on the deck.
Sketches for the longboat and how it would work, as well as a cityscape from the world of Freebooters. I had this really impossible idea that in this universe, the earth became unstable and shattered into millions of chunks that were somehow held in place, rotating within the still-intact gravitational field. Things would fall to the center, where there would be like, a small moon or planetoid comprised mostly of fallen objects. This would have been one of the major plot points of the story.
Some drawings of the bad guy and his ship, originally based on Davy Jones and the Flying Dutchman from the Pirates movies(the first drawings had the bad guys ship actually be some sort of literal plague ship and all covered in organic growths. A concept that was almost immediately abandoned). Also included are quick sketches of the captains sister, another major character, and another cityscape.
An interior of the Sparrow, the crew quarters facing the prow. Usually when I draw a ship of any sort, spaceship, air ship, submarine etc... I immediately start thinking about how the interiors would work and so most of my ship drawings are accompanied by quick doodles of floor plans, which lead to interior drawings like the one above. I've also sketched details of the crew members featured in the interior shot, as well as another sketch of the sister.
