Frustration
Frustration is the mother of us all.
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Note: all along have been wondering what a 'another thing on the tree' Black Ships might look like...don't know but they never will be definitively depicted!...but a start of course was Jack Sparrow's Pirate Ship Pearl...but I couldn't just copy that...and thought and thought...and three masts was certain...and a lot of other things...but three sails on each mast was bothering me...and I thought, 'just one on each'...I've seen old Chinese/Japanese ships like that...and I sketched a few sails...wide at bottom, tapering at top...such sails might block the wind from one another, a thought...and the conventional shape of sailboat hulls wasn't working...too un-black shipish!...and the thought, make it wide!...and I sketched that, wide with roundish shape...and thought, 'oh, it's a walnut!'...messed with the sails, 'oh, their leaves'...'aspens!'...and the leaf veins the masts...now, I was off to the web to look at walnuts...discovered they're used to make pen and ink inks, and, and!, to make little boats for kids, with paper sails, or leaf sails!...perfect...to make one of those, pour some candle wax into half a walnut, let it cool, put a toothpick in the wax...cut off the sharp point after poking it through the sail...add a flag with a piece of folded tape trimmed to a point...the dyi this is from is on youtube...several clips there on how to make walnut boats!...anyway, a Black Ship isn't kid stuff...well, maybe...and I've scaled up the idea...put a Black Dragon figure head on it...a Puffin...the masts, the veins, can bend and tilt, so that solves the sails getting in the way of each other's wind...I can use all kinds of leaf shapes...make Black Ship Medea with Black Oak leaves...Black Ship Argo with Live Oak leaves...thought of hull made from an acorn...maybe other nuts...went to all the nearby grocery stores looking for walnuts to draw from...no luck...the rigging, and how to make the Ravens and Gulls without a lot of clutter, a puzzle...some other things...but most things fit!...wish I could animate...work with the octopus like color changes...and the lightning charging, going up the veins/masts!
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DavidDavid
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