Calm Seas

A rather recent character, Meleto, serving as helmsman(woman) on a Sicilian trading vessel.

While drawing sketches for this I realized that medieval ships probably didn't have rudders of the same type one can see now... which lead to a terribly distressing attempt to find information about medieval rudders. I only partially succeeded I'm afraid. Plus everything is kind of out of proportion and there is hardly enough rigging. Oh well, artistic license and all that...Still, boats are just so awesome!

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Watercolour, black ink, white ink, markers