Here's my next fiasco. First, the rough pencils. Very rough. It doesn't really matter how rough since I'm inking this myself and I'll be doing most of the actual drawing in that phase. Mistakes become apparent with a quick glance, but that's to be expected. Lots of anatomy to fix on the figures and to figure out on Stubing's uniform. I'll be fixing the ceiling and the doors, too. Notice how the doors don't line up correctly on opposite sides! I'm thinking about doing a diamond pattern on the hallway carpet, but I'll need to check some Love Boat photo reference to see if that's appropriate. It would be very nice if the Pacific Princess sports simple single-color carpet!
Here's the first stage of inking, blocking in the figures and background. I do this digitally in Adobe Illustrator because I've never been happy with my skills (lack of, actually) at traditional inking. Simply put, I suck at inking. Also, being a lefty, I tend to drag the side of my hand through wet ink no matter how many precautions I take or how many times I tell myself to slow down and pay attention! Using Illustrator means I can make changes to anything, at any point in the drawing process, without resorting to whiting things out or-- horrors!-- starting over at the beginning. After this, the actual drawing begins.
Some will say, "Why Captain Stubing?" To them, I say, "Why not Captain Stubing?" Others will say, "Of course Captain Stubing." To them, I say, "Let's party!"
*I like Gavin MacLeod. He was in The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Andy Griffith Show, McHale's Navy, The Sand Pebbles, Kelly's Heroes as well as The Love Boat, after all!
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