Stormalong - cartoon connections?

My chosen story is about a giant sea captain who goes by the name of Alfred Stormalong. He appears in various sea shanties and folk tales and is one of the greats and shares the throne with other folk giants such as Paul Bunyan. I have already written a story synopsis and began character generation in my sketchbooks so I won't post it all again on here but I wanted to post some thematic research on here because I dislike sticking images in a book. There is an awesome cartoon that runs on cartoon network called the Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack which has some beautiful characters and scenery. That stuff aside I have recently noticed that the harbor in the program is named Stormalong, coincidence? Maybe but the harbor is large, so large in fact that it is it's own island, Stormalong's ship was so large that he could never dock it meaning he was constantly at sea. The Fan art above also shows this giant creature dwelling below the harbor which matches Stormalong's description pretty well, both Stormalong and his ship the Courser were incredibly huge so the harbor could be parodying either.

If we look at the image above you can see that the harbor has a mini village on it, there is also a giant galleon which could even be the Courser. 

Above is a screen cap from the cartoon, there appears to be a large octopus character which lies deep under the harbor, this character is also seen in the first image at the bottom of the sea. Stormalong had a famous feud with a giant octopus like creature which further supports my theory that this entire island and show is loosely based around the old Cap'n Stormalong, which I think is pretty cool!  

I'm back!

This is essentially what I turned into over the summer, I feel like it has been the longest summer break yet and thus found myself getting a little bored and lonely near the end. But now we are all back!
I feel like i've kept myself busy over the summer and potentially figured out a few more styles and ways of working that I am eager to try out on the new briefs to come this year. I thought it was time to update my blog as my last post was just before my summer started which is quite a while back, But now I am back and ready for the final year. Over the summer we were given a little book of texts and we had to basically draw from it, rewrite bits, add our own stories and so on, I would like to think I have done exactly that. We were told not to generate any final designs for parts of text but I went ahead and made some inspired pieces anyway simply because I wanted to try out some new styles and that for me was the best way to go about it.

I'd learnt a lot from my internship at Hallmark but the main thing I took away from the experience was the confidence I needed in my work and how fast I can work when a short deadline is given. Working faster allowed me to map things out and get a better understanding of what was needed and because of such I found myself drawing an experimenting more over the summer. It stopped being a task and became something to enjoy which is what it should have always been and I am glad I have found myself again.

For this module I would like to work mainly on paper so there won't be too much on here aside from artist research and some other jazz but I will try to keep it as updated as possible as my writing isn't the best!

More to come... Watch this space...