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100 Pirates In 100 Days 
21st-Dec-2006 11:55 am



I'M FINISHED!

In September of this year I began my mission to draw one Pirate a day for 100 days straight, and today I cleaned up and uploaded Pirate number 100. I am mentally and physically exhausted. If this post is less than articulate it's because I have been up for many hours and my brain don't work properly. When I'm done posting this I am going to sleeeeeeeeeeeep. Still, It feels great to know I have finished on time or thereabouts.

I uploaded the images to a flickr set, where you can view the images as a slide show, leave comments and so on. For the sake of consistency with the rest of this blog I've also put all the images behind the cut tag below, but that might take a while to load and my friend whose webspace I use will hate me, so don't say I didn't warn you! 

I should mention that since the drawings were originally commissioned for an online role-playing game, they depict not only pirates but the creatures whose world the pirates inhabit. I guess the title of this project might be slightly misleading, because a fish with a pirate hat on isn't strictly a pirate, but I hope no-one will hold that against me. I should also point out that I've ordered it so the first twenty or so are all the lowly skulking creatures and pirate children, the last 20 are the mighty warrior pirates, and then everything in between is everything in between. That's just so you don't get confused when you click the link expecting to see pirates and instead you see a bunch of fish wearing hats.



click here to view the flickr set

 

#1 - Slug Fish



#2 - Fiddler Death Crab


#3 - Ancient Fish



#4- Poisonous Frog



#5 - Bone Monkey



#6 - Scavenger Monkey



#7 - Rufus



#8 - Schemin' Goldfish



#9 - Tortoise On The Prowl



#10 - Googol Bird



11# - Rumtoise



#12 - Rooster Gone Bad



#13 - Rogue Parrot



#14 - Real Jolly Roger



#15 - Angharad



#16 - Swashbucklin' Dog



#17 - Cyborg



#18 - Coil Snake



#19 - Terror Kid



#20 - Bombtoise



#21 - Lorna Lynch



#22 - Janos (South Bay Urchins)



#23 - Istvan (South Bay Urchins)



#24 - Aamir (South Bay Urchins)



#25 - Wilma (South Bay Urchins)



#26 - Fabyan (South Bay Urchins)



#27 - Evil Swami Tortoise



#28 - Battlin' Ape Girl



#29 - Witch-Doctor-In-Training



#30 - Eric



#31 - Pancake Droog #1



#32 - Pancake Droog #2



#33 - Pancake Droog #3


#34 - Pancake Droog #4



#35 - Pancake Underboss



#36 - Octopus



#37 - Graham



#38 - Isabelle



#39 - Sean Fraser



#40 - Zombie Kid



#41 - Hamid



#42 - Roger



#43 - William



#44 - Spike Tortoise



#45 - Three-headed Monkey



#46 - Willie Billiams



#47 - Leo



#48 - Luther



#49 - Leggett



#50 - Peter Poop



#51 - Pappy The One-Eyed Sailor



#52 - Syzlak



#53 - Mancomb Seepgood



#54 - Deepsea Sam



#55 - Deepsea George



#56 - Deepsea Eddie



#57 - Masqueradin' Skeleton



#58 - Zombie Pirate Kate



#59 - Zombie Pirate Claude



#60 - Robert



#61 - Theo



#62 - Strong Kid



#63 - Turtle Rider



#64 - Cowan



#65 - Yves



#66 - Mary Reade



#67 - Anne Bonney



#68 - Portland Will



#69 - Ape Lord



#70 - Fisherman



#71 - Blacktoe



#72 - Channing



#73 - Cannon Scout



#74 - Swashbuckler



#75 - Swashbuckless



#76 - Angry Fisherman



#77 - Castaway



#78 - Red Venom



#79 - Soldier Girl



#80 - Mervyn



#81 - Anchor Man



#82 - Larry



#83 - Vera Lynch



#84 - Elderly Sea Hag



#85 - Bosun Edward



#86 - Vic



#87 - Old Nick



#88 - Naoko


#89 - Captain Murderboard



#90 - Bette Lynch



#91 - Monkey Alan



This is a commission for a Christmas present. I'm going to colour it in properly after I get some sleep.

#92 - Wolfgang Hardcastle



#93 - Fish Tank



#94 - Burakkubeard



#95 - Deadbeard



#96 - Robot Master



#97 - Farseer



#98 - Giant



#99 - Dreadnought



#100 - Beast Empress

 
So that's the 100, pretty much on deadline give or take a couple of days!  I'd be lying if I said I found it easy to stick to the schedule, though. Some of these pirates took me three days to do each, so in the last couple of weeks I had to work at a rate of 5 pirates a day to get caught up. The Nintendo Wii coming out two weeks before the deadline didn't help matters, either. Still, I don't think the quality really suffered for all the last minute rushing.  Thanks to everybody who supported me along the way and said nice things. 


Comments 
21st-Dec-2006 02:49 pm (UTC)
[info]theilybinilwys
huzzah!
2nd-May-2007 08:10 pm (UTC)
[info]7wrc
I have something like that in my mind :-)
21st-Dec-2006 03:35 pm (UTC)
[info]sharkballz
Wow, amazing job! I have to say my favorites are Naoko and Monkey
Alan.
21st-Dec-2006 04:27 pm (UTC)
[info]swimmy
Awesome. Super duper awesome.

I love the Cyborg.
21st-Dec-2006 05:00 pm (UTC)
[info]akkanvader
that wee-wee tattoo is great.

you should have named the bomb turtle "nokobon" though.
21st-Dec-2006 06:01 pm (UTC)
[info]saderakki
Hee hee hee... Mancomb... :)
21st-Dec-2006 09:20 pm (UTC)
[info]psykoghoti
I love your Anne Bonney and Mary Read. And Ape Lord! I can't pick a favorite.

It was fun following this project. All the pirates are really clever.
21st-Dec-2006 09:36 pm (UTC)
[info]alithiel
Great pictures... there are so many i really like^^
Got one question, would it be ok for you if I use one of ur pics for a musc sampler i´m working on... its all non commercial... just for friend but i still wanted to ask you...
21st-Dec-2006 11:38 pm (UTC)
[info]harveyjames
Of course!
22nd-Dec-2006 12:24 am (UTC)
[info]jellyoap
I absolutely love Rumtoise and Bombtoise, and I could gaze at Naoko all day! Well done you.
And mmmmm, Anchorman...
Also I love those sea giraffes...
22nd-Dec-2006 12:30 am (UTC) - :O
[info]sweetmary
YAAAAY!
Wickedly awesome work. :D
22nd-Dec-2006 03:31 am (UTC)
[info]aneffigy
amazing. I love #36 - Octopus and #67 - Anne Bonney. Awesome.
22nd-Dec-2006 10:01 am (UTC)
[info]m_w_e
(Here from Drawn!) Wow, great work, and credit to you for getting them done on time. Favourites would be Cyborg, Coil Snake, Fisherman and Farseer.
22nd-Dec-2006 05:53 pm (UTC)
[info]brunorubio
Awesome! You set a goal and completed it. What a role model for the little children of the world.
22nd-Dec-2006 06:53 pm (UTC)
[info]beba_spaz
Amazing, well done! A wicked project from start to finish. I've got too many favorites to list, here's a few: #91 Monkey Alan of course, can't wait to see him in glorious colour. #66 & #67 Mary Reade & Anne Bonney, both incredible. #100 Beast Empress, so much to love about it. #4 Poisonous Frog. #57 Masqueradin' Skeleton is super skill clever stuff. #79 Solider Girl, I just adore the monkey canon ball gatherers. #18 Coil Snake and #88 Naoko are both favorite favorites. Then there are all the giraffes, ladybirds, tortoise/turtles, Anne Bonney's dead horses, Rooster Gone Bad's skull feathers, Old Nick's crab, Turtle Rider's flag, Theo's footwear and all the wonderful detail that will keep me coming back to look again and again. Thank you xxxxxxxxx
23rd-Dec-2006 01:02 am (UTC)
[info]drunkprophet
wow, very very very impressive, you are officially my role model :)
23rd-Dec-2006 07:44 am (UTC)
[info]consummated
In case you didn't see this on your Flickr account:

An acquaintance of mine, who is sexually obsessed with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles wishes to remind you that turtles have flippers, while tortoises don't, and you've made a few mistakes in this regard in your nomenclature. She demands that such oversights be corrected while she performs unnatural acts with a Raphael Pez dispenser.
23rd-Dec-2006 03:20 pm (UTC)
[info]harveyjames
In America though they call both types of shelled animal 'turtles'. Sometimes I went for correctness and sometimes I went for whichever one sounded better.


I'll tell your friend where she can stick her pez dispenser :P
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26th-Dec-2006 02:50 am (UTC) - Re: Is there naything here older than five years?
[info]harveyjames
All the best!
27th-Dec-2006 06:29 am (UTC) - Very cool!
[info]trill42
Congrats on finishing the project... very nifty. I've decided my favorite is #79, Soldier Girl. Really well-done, and I love the expression on her face, and on the faces of the monkeys. And I like the contrast between the bright, happy colors, adorable monkeys, kind-of sweet-looking girl (pigtails and such), overflowing treasure chest, and the dark elements (human head, cannon, skulltastic outfit). Fun!
28th-Dec-2006 02:52 pm (UTC)
[info]martinharris
its-a me!
good work man, the amount of detail in these is seriously impressive
as far as favourites, mmm.. i love the style of deadbeard, and the ape lord is awesome, but to be honest the standard is such that it's pretty much impossible to pick favourites out.
the beast empress looks like anne robinson.
and i like the way the masquerading skeleton has pugwash's face.
special mention must of course also go to "willie billiams".
i must say, the swashbuckling dog looks... familiar..
28th-Dec-2006 03:23 pm (UTC)
[info]harveyjames
Beast Empress is a caricature of someone, it was commissioned for that person's birthday.

Swashbucklin' Dog was added in when I realised I was a couple of pirates short.

Hope you had a good christmas!

Want to know what I just saw on TV? Spy Kids 3D, motherfucker! That movie is amazing.


29th-Dec-2006 08:44 am (UTC)
[info]tttiramisu
I love Pappy, Octopus and Fisherman! Gotta love Naoko too.
30th-Dec-2006 10:10 pm (UTC)
[info]shocho
These are terrific! My favorite is Anne Bonney. Such wonderful ideas, and so well executed. I found you from BoingBoing and the Drawn! blog. Thanks for posting!
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