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Three conceptual sketches of one of my lesser known and rarely drawn characters, Horatio Helmswell, commander of a part of the Nauticus Quartermark Fleet, Southwest Sector. I realise that I don’t offer too much information about what Armarniss actually is. I’m afraid I prefer instead to keep it behind the scenes, so for those who may be a little baffled at the sudden lack of medieval influence, let me just establish that Armarniss is a world that encompasses many different time periods that exist at the same time. As the story is centered on main characters with a medieval influence, the focus is on this period in the beginning. Horatio is really a classic example of what I aim to do with the entire Armarniss project: take history, then distort it. He is most obviously based on one great English hero, Admiral Lord Nelson, having lost an eye and an arm, but not in land battles. His duty is to patrol the surrounding waters of the main landmass in his given sector, making sure that no unruly activities are being undertaken under his commissioner’s nose, including acts of piracy. Although his general mannerism is to maintain the air of ‘an officer and a gentleman’, he can be rather arrogant at times and craves to see more action than he currently gets in his uneventful state. He finds himself desperate to prove himself after having endangered the lives of his crew because of his ego (costing him his eye and arm), having been placed in the calm Southwest sector to ‘cool his heels’. However, things are sure to take a different turn after he meets Lance and Yolos, traveling dangerously on a ship marked as a pirate vessel. The three sketches are a study of Horatio’s seafaring attire (partly based on the 18th century Navy), his later uniform as acting captain of the Armarniss Guard and a colour concept.

(Armarniss © Leona Preston 2000/’05)

Please remember to respect my Copyrights!

Description
Three conceptual sketches of one of my lesser known and rarely drawn characters, Horatio Helmswell, commander of a part of the Nauticus Quartermark Fleet, Southwest Sector. I realise that I don’t offer too much information about what Armarniss actually is. I’m afraid I prefer instead to keep it behind the scenes, so for those who may be a little baffled at the sudden lack of medieval influence, let me just establish that Armarniss is a world that encompasses many different time periods that exist at the same time. As the story is centered on main characters with a medieval influence, the focus is on this period in the beginning. Horatio is really a classic example of what I aim to do with the entire Armarniss project: take history, then distort it. He is most obviously based on one great English hero, Admiral Lord Nelson, having lost an eye and an arm, but not in land battles. His duty is to patrol the surrounding waters of the main landmass in his given sector, making sure that no unruly activities are being undertaken under his commissioner’s nose, including acts of piracy. Although his general mannerism is to maintain the air of ‘an officer and a gentleman’, he can be rather arrogant at times and craves to see more action than he currently gets in his uneventful state. He finds himself desperate to prove himself after having endangered the lives of his crew because of his ego (costing him his eye and arm), having been placed in the calm Southwest sector to ‘cool his heels’. However, things are sure to take a different turn after he meets Lance and Yolos, traveling dangerously on a ship marked as a pirate vessel. The three sketches are a study of Horatio’s seafaring attire (partly based on the 18th century Navy), his later uniform as acting captain of the Armarniss Guard and a colour concept.

(Armarniss © Leona Preston 2000/’05)

Please remember to respect my Copyrights!