#topsail

[rjnello]

Topsail

The Mrs and I planned this two months ago. We spent Friday to Monday with my dad in Pennsylvania. On Tuesday, we drove 11 hours down here, to Topsail Beach, North Carolina, for a week in a rental house on the beach. On the road down, almost here, at one gas station, I was filling the car and she ran in to get a can of corn (we had forgotten to buy at a supermarket earlier). She returned to the…

[runfromthecity]

[harpy1926]

Figured I will post my inspiration pics for my custom dyed shawl. I actually asked three different weavers to do their spin on these pics. Love seeing their interpretations.

[beachwavecore]

A view for a minute.

[caterpillar-b0nes]

be still my heart.

[yessir38]

Patio - Fountain Huge beach style side yard concrete paver patio fountain photo with no cover

[the-golden-vanity]

I miss this... North Atlantic Ocean, near Block Island, 8/12/24.

[weergang]

Ship (aka Full-rigged): All three masts square-rigged.

Barque: First two masts square-rigged, the mizzen fore-and-aft rigged

Barquentine (Schooner barque): Fore mast square-rigged, main and mizzen fore-and-aft.

Topsail schooner: All masts fore-and-aft rigged, but with topsails on the foremast

Schooner: All masts fore-and-aft rigged

[ltwilliammowett]

Topsail schooner Pride of Baltimore II

[lemonlinelights]

HI

Share the news, send emails, do phone calls to Florida's Gov. DeSantis. Please y'all help protect these state parks

[2othcentury]

Topsail Island, North Carolina, 1985

[fallsflowersandmoss]

I went to North Carolina in September

[tricornonthecob]

My friend who is a Finn IRL sent me clips of a Finnish historical drama from the early 00s called Hovimäki and I was completely unprepared for this man's cravat.

Bonus round: Spot The Swede

[pamwmsn]

southernliving.com

Topsail Island NC

[niwlmwsogl]

[lucybellwood]

The original crew of the Rodentia, designed for the pitch we used to sell Seacritters! to our publisher. It’s so funny to see how these beasts evolved from 2019 to the present. I’d barely drawn any capybaras before I started work on this book! They felt all wrong at the beginning.

But those sketchbook studies eventually led to something more refined (plus a few badgers sneaking their way into the mix):

Then I had to push things to get to the differentiated character designs we submitted with the pitch packet, since we needed the crew to all stand out from one other. (I’ll do separate posts about each of them so I can collect all their development art in the same place, but I also feel like I’m far from done nudging them into their final form. Drawing 242 pages of roughs for the book was a good start, but there’s more to be done!)