I’ve always been fascinated by Ocean Liners, particularly the ones that used to do the North Atlantic route.
I recently drew the front of a liner as part of a background for a cartoon. I thought it was a very striking image so I thought I’d explore some further ideas to go with it.
Oswold The Octopus
I’ve just realised that I omitted ‘a’ from the above caption.
Who will win the prize?
This one originally started out as ‘The Red Cat’, but I thought red has a stronger association with foxes so I went for that one instead.
The Blue Riband used to be a prize awarded to the fastest crossing of the Atlantic. The last liner to hold the title was the USS United States, which crossed the Atlantic in 3 days, 10 hours and 40 minutes in 1952.
…and yet another race…
I definitely haven’t drawn enough dolphins, so time to start remedying that.
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