Ready to board! (Patreon)

This was the first drawing I started during my most recent Picarto stream.  The theme of that night was pirates in celebration of International Talk Like a Pirate Day. Link  Tempest Shadow's character design and personality make her natural in my mind for being a pirate or privateer.  

      I wanted Tempest to be standing on the gunwale of a modest sized sailing ship in the middle of a gun battle and boarding action. However I really did want to spend hours and hours drawing it. So instead I decided to use looser lines and shading suggest the setting instead actually rendering all of it. Swathing the background in the swirling, billowing smoke of gunfire. Only Tempest is rendered in a tight, finished form.