Little Pirates by LydeaBlaze on DeviantArt (original) (raw)

I got an idea one day back in Late January – Early February that I would attempt to draw some smol, cute little pirates. I started drawing the background – a rather drastically oversized background I may add – and as it began working out, I attached to the idea of little pirates. Then the thought went along down the line while working away, it turned into who would be my little pirates and I could find no other fit than my Tailrine fan children (and adopted androids) being the tiny pirates playing on a mini boat in their backyard. Plus the added benefit of drawing it all digital.

After many trials of trying to configure brush tools, the challenges of drawing different poses and angles, hands as usual, the tiny proportions of little Mobians and about a month of picking up and putting down the project here and there – I finally made it. Of course stopping to blog my progress along the way.When I finally got it finished, I learnt that exporting it and working on it under the usual way I make my works would have been impossible. I would have lost all the nice smooth lines that Illustrator’s vector graphics use by going into the backward pixelated mess of Photoshop. It was only when jumping on Google did I learn about the Live Paint Tool – you know like 6+ months late after I began using the program I might add.

The only thing I used Photoshop for was adding the texture to make the sand look… like uh- grainy sand… and then I decided to take a proper shot at adding some shadows. I was in a weird spot between knowing what I was doing because I was shown how to add things like shadows in with the layer masks and the Brightness/Contrast, but also felt like I had no idea what I was doing… Well, if anyone out there has any pointers, I wouldn’t mind hearing them TBH.

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Emmitt is the eldest and gets to be the captain of the ship, with his clearly broken plastic scimitar, coat and hat. Freya, mostly because she is pretty close to her adopted "older brother" often gets to be the first mate on the lookout for treasure with the looking glass. Swell is just there, if you had to put it plainly, mostly because their mother said to include him. Finally Elsa is supposed to be steering the ship or something, but I think she’s just sitting there doing nothing.

They’re aged with Emmitt being 9, Elsa - 8, Freya - 7 and Swell - 2.

I wished that somehow I could have incorporated the older Marine and Tails playing along with their kids, but since I don’t have designs made for the, by this time, 27 year old parents and have no idea where to put them guess they’re staying out of the picture. Also I’ll be the first mention Frey’s eye just stupid and couldn’t go at any better angle and since the boy is intrigued by something off screen, let’s just say their mamma Marine is supervising and taking a photo to send to their papa Tails who’s off running Prower Enterprises. Yeah, I headcanon that Tails runs a multi-dimensional corporation in Mobius Prime and the Sol Dimension making things like highly powerful computers and communicator watches. Most of the communicators feature personal assistant software built from a watered-down, less sophisticated “lower form” of Informative Thinker Technology. The “higher form” of ITT is what makes up the AI of Emmitt, Elsa and half of Shard and Nicole’s son, Haimish. Most hospitals across between the dimensions have benefited from the healthcare companion medical archive software built with Elsa.