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Red Sky

Red sky at night, sailor's delight.  Red sky  in the morning, sailor's warning. I love the idea of this foreboding premonition sign as a narrative tool and using  the latter half of this classic saying fit perfectly. The phrase comes from millennia of weather forecasting and is a well-known meteorological prediction by judging the glow of evening or morning clouds relating to nearby storms; the changing of weather systems flowing from west to  east . This foreboding event will be the very beginning of the storyline...the calm before the storm. All seems well, but hell is unknowingly on the horizon.                                                                                                     ...

Deckhand Designs

After creating   the first set of  character designs and enjoying the line art process,  I set about making the next sheet for the deckhand crew of the F/V Scully.                                                                                                                                           Jason Bartlett © This sheet, of three  deckhand   members, completes the crew of six (see here for previous post). Here we have the Engineer (Left), Deckhand #1 (Middle) and Deckhand #2 (Right). In each character, I hope to convey their roles; while describing what sort of personality they have. For example, ...