A low den of nefarious scoundrels

After her long walk to the seaside town of Portsmouth, Lady Elizabeth finds a place to sit down in a sailor’s tavern. Here are rough sketches I drew to get the feel of the place. The tavern needs to be in town but a little apart from other buildings. It needs to be near to the sea. I’ll draw more. There’s a spectacular barroom brawl I will stage, so the floor plan needs to be worked out.

I should come up with a name for it, like ‘The Salty Dog’ or ‘The King’s Arms.’ I’m working on a crowd-funding page. Maybe naming rights to the tavern will be an incentive.

Thumbnail sketches

The GLORIANA manuscript is written. You’ve seen that I’ve been designing the characters (I think I got almost all of them now). The manuscript needs to turn into a graphic novel—that means lots of pictures. I need to map out how I’ll tell this story visually. So I start with thumbnail sketches. Little rough drawings—no frills, half-size—whose job is to give me a starting point for drawing the tight sketches.