The surviving sailors, from the ship which was not

Pink Panther
60 x 80 cm
paper, acrylic paint, oil
Artem Tikhonkov

The surviving sailors, from the ship which was not

It is such a strange feeling when you are suddenly obsessed with drawing an army of sailors, so unusual, fabulous.
Like from the movie "Pirates of the Caribbean", but mine had to be positive characters, but at the same time very serious.
Perhaps something similar to how the Chinese emperor (Vysyralchigun) built his clay army for his protection in another world.
I began to draw them, not knowing what would happen in the end, but I really felt the character of the hero, and as if answering me, he himself appeared on the canvas, as if leading my hand for greater accuracy in conveying his image.

It was planned a whole series, the navigator, the cook, the captain, in general, the entire naval staff of the ship.
A sort of brutal guys, whose ship is turned upside down, and moves under the sea as if under the sky.
From that they have different marine growths in the form of corals, different crabs, starfish and so on.
And so they would have been born into the world, all possibly ten people, but the trouble is, their ship fell into a storm of my laziness and was destroyed before reaching the secret island where the lizard people threw back their golden tails, protecting their treasure for centuries.
Only two survived, and in front of you is one of them, his name is Captain Crabs.

Here I am writing all this and suddenly inspiration appeared, to assemble a new ship and recruit the missing crew of sailors on it and sail to take away their gold from the lizard people.

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