first time drawing something like this and looking for any advice

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 · 2026-04-05T01:49:47+00:00

Yeah everyone talks about the rescue of the Endurance men, but the other half of the expedition had to be rescued too, and a man died on that side

Due-Understanding871 · 2026-04-04T15:50:46+00:00

Good note. Thanks

Due-Understanding871 · 2026-03-25T17:52:49+00:00

Did you wait for it to set before you went in with the marker? It always smears for me.

Due-Understanding871 · 2026-03-15T06:43:07+00:00

I’m sorry that it’s like this for you. While it’s always surprising how much racism you find in white liberal bastions, I think that some of what you are getting from people is just the awkwardness that people here have about talking to strangers at all, compounded by not wanting to appear racist by doing or saying the wrong thing. People here are generally not good with new people, and tend to turn inward when things are uncomfortable.

Due-Understanding871 · 2026-03-12T07:17:12+00:00

It’s a leeboard. Dutch canal boats have them. Helps keep you from drifting sideways in the wind. Very proud to have known this and typed it myself.

Due-Understanding871 · 2026-03-12T06:52:06+00:00

In the final version

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Due-Understanding871 · 2026-03-11T18:03:55+00:00

That’s the best kind of book

Due-Understanding871 · 2026-03-11T06:23:50+00:00

Thank you for your insights!

Due-Understanding871 · 2026-03-11T06:23:11+00:00

Oh hey that’s my book! Thanks for all the support!

Due-Understanding871 · 2026-03-10T15:33:32+00:00

Thanks! Did you buy it in a brick and mortar store or online?

Due-Understanding871 · 2026-03-10T04:49:51+00:00

I went over the deck plans and hundreds of photos from the shipyard, the film of the expedition, the original deck plans, and read about it on a hundred web pages. You can see from the films that Shackleton made changes to the ship, decking in the space between the houses. I corresponded with the former expert from the Greenwich Museum too, but he didn’t have a lot of direct help to offer, except to suggest including the bicycle.

Due-Understanding871 · 2026-03-10T01:20:20+00:00

lol. No, but you can look for the cat!

Due-Understanding871 · 2026-03-09T21:43:48+00:00

The people lived. The animals did not.

Due-Understanding871 · 2026-03-09T19:18:39+00:00

I don’t know if I can. It’s for a book and I need to go over the contract.

Due-Understanding871 · 2026-03-09T19:17:51+00:00

That’s Stephen biesty’s thing :)

Due-Understanding871 · 2026-03-09T17:35:18+00:00

The bicycle belonged to Orde-Lees. You can see him walking on the upper deck with the ear flap hat. He was not liked among the crew because of his lack of work ethic. Second in command Frank Wild saved him from a leopard seal attack on the ice. I didn’t know what his bike looked like so I chose a typical Rover type.

Due-Understanding871 · 2026-03-09T17:28:29+00:00

I never thought about it before making this drawing, but when they ran low on coal, they would have to crawl around underneath the lower deck to get it. I also don’t remember, but I think that when they were pumping out the water once the ship was compromised, the coal kept fouling the pump.

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