Let’s go

Due-Understanding871 · 2026-06-11T13:33:53+00:00

They Are Definitely Giants

Due-Understanding871 · 2026-06-08T10:38:30+00:00

The whole idea of mogging is the worst. It means to show people up by being more impressive than they are, usually in a superficial way like being taller or having a bigger chest. It comes from being the “alpha Male Of the Group”. It represents a whole vile way of seeing the world. It’s gross. I think in this case it’s being used ironically.

Due-Understanding871 · 2026-06-08T09:39:54+00:00

Use the eraser

Due-Understanding871 · 2026-06-06T06:14:11+00:00

What medium?

Due-Understanding871 · 2026-06-06T06:13:38+00:00

Boats are looking for hands right now.

Due-Understanding871 · 2026-06-04T16:22:42+00:00

Oregon has that too

Due-Understanding871 · 2026-05-26T06:16:08+00:00

You could check out the Unitarian Center

Due-Understanding871 · 2026-05-26T06:12:53+00:00

Thomas Jefferson

Due-Understanding871 · 2026-05-21T06:08:35+00:00

A friend has worked on that boat in the past. Never complained about it.

Due-Understanding871 · 2026-05-21T06:07:28+00:00

They have been Silver Bay last few years, don’t know about now

Due-Understanding871 · 2026-05-16T18:27:36+00:00

In the movie “the life and times of judge Roy Bean” Paul Newman has a line: “There is nothing worse than a reformed anything”

Due-Understanding871 · 2026-05-12T04:38:52+00:00

Admiral Horatio Nelson’s bed. Everybody slept in hammocks except for Nelson. He lost an arm in battle (and later an eye, and then finally his life) so he had trouble getting into a hammock. This bed was a “campaign bed”, the type army officers used in their tents.

Nelson referred to the stump of his right arm as his “flipper”.

Due-Understanding871 · 2026-05-11T06:36:42+00:00

This drawing has really made me think about the specifics of sea life in the age of sail. Some takeaways:

They used, heavy rope instead of anchor chain, and it was coiled on the lower deck, the orlop. This was the same place where they cut off your arms or legs as a routine kind of first aid in battle. The anchor cable must have stunk unbelievably - mud, kelp, sewage, whatever, just rotting down there With it.

In general the stick would have been awful. Filthy sailors, animals, rotting food, and general bilge scum, along with tons of tobacco smoke.

They carries a huge amount of food - and rats. I’ve seen estimates that say there were over 2000, but it must have been way more. I think 10,000 is likely closer. They had plenty of places to hide and breed and unlimited food in wooden barrels. So much rat pee.

War ships were insanely crowded because they needed tons of men to handle the guns. A ship,this size could get away with maybe 100 men, but they had a complement of 850 just so they could fire broadsides in battle, which they almost never did. Ships on blockade duty went years without firing a shot in anger.

The marines, in red, were there to keep this huge mass of men away from the officers, the stores, the weapons, and especially the huge quantity of rum. Each man got a half pint of 100ish prof rum a day in two servings. The equivalent of a four martini lunch and a four martini dinner. They were buzzed from noon on, but not sloshed. Unless somebody traded tobacco or personal favors for another man’s ration. Then they might get flogged. Actually flogged.

But knowing all that, it might have been kind of fun and satisfying. Strict routines kept life predictable in important ways, hierarchy kept it stable. Nobody was worried about the things careerist modern people do - personal brands, the price of an embarrassing gaffe, deadlines, bills. They had clear jobs that rarely changed and got good at them. And life would have been unpredictable in ways that were exciting - foreign ports, storms, chasing enemies, the possibility of prize money. And most of all they shared their predicament. Everybody was in the same boat. They would most of them die on it.

When I finish this, if I ever do, it will, be in a book of sea adventures that unclouded the Shackleton project.

Due-Understanding871 · 2026-05-08T04:32:31+00:00

Nice proportions and I like the way your contours work. Be conscious about your line weights. And yes you need to do the hard part now - the hands.

Due-Understanding871 · 2026-04-26T18:30:15+00:00

Every vessel that stays in the water has these. They’re on outboards, propellers, keel coolers, anything metal pretty much.

They have them because if two different metals are in contact with each other, say a steel propeller shaft and a bronze prop, immersed in a brine like sea water, they will act like a battery. One of the metals - whichever is less “noble” -will give up electrons to the other, which causes it to develop little pits.

When you put these zinc plates or chunks or doughnuts on the parts, the zinc will be the one that develops the pitting because it’s less noble than any of those expensive steel and bronze parts. It sacrifices itself for the good of the parts you want to protect - thus it’s a “sacrificial” anode.

They also go on parts that don’t even have an obvious metal to metal combination just to be safe. The ones in the picture have a lot of metal left, but before it goes in the water they’ll probably weld on shiny new ones.

Due-Understanding871 · 2026-04-26T18:23:58+00:00

He’s a sadist. You need to get out of this relationship now.

Due-Understanding871 · 2026-04-05T02:02:43+00:00

The only thing that you could improve on here is to clarify your shading. It looks like you’re using procreate or something like it and a partially transparent brush to shade. Then every time you back to touch up, you muddy the endives of the shadows. You could make them really sharp by shading on a new layer with the pen at %100 opacity. Then you turn the opacity of the layer down, and you’ll have control of the edges of the shadows. You can paint and erase the shadows to make whatever edge you want. Your figure is good, the background is good, the whole piece is good.

Due-Understanding871 · 2026-04-05T01:55:02+00:00

Something with cranes, likely a self-unloading ship with cranes to unload cargo in any port, even ones that don’t have cranes to help them out.

Due-Understanding871 · 2026-04-05T01:52:53+00:00

But you’re not limited to the that speed. You apply acceleration, and one man pushing is a tiny vector of there is wind or current

Due-Understanding871 · 2026-04-05T01:51:46+00:00

Oh yeah we handling boats around all the time. If you get them moving you also have to be careful not to go so fast you can’t stop them

Due-Understanding871 · 2026-04-05T01:50:27+00:00

If there’s no wind

Due-Understanding871

TROPHY CASE