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Anchors Aweigh, my boys! by *Ironhide*

Artist *Ironhide* [gallery]
Time spent 3 hours, 7 minutes
Drawing sessions 6
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Anchors Aweigh, my boys!

Postby *Ironhide* » Mon Aug 04, 2014 10:46 am


Anchors Aweigh (The US Navy Song)

Stand Navy out to sea,
Fight our battle cry;
We'll never change our course,
So vicious foe steer shy-y-y-y.
Roll out the TNT,
Anchors Aweigh.
Sail on to victory
And sink their bones to Davy Jones, hooray!

Anchors Aweigh, my boys,
Anchors Aweigh.
Farewell to foreign shores,
We sail at break of day-ay-ay-ay.
Through our last night ashore,
Drink to the foam,
Until we meet once more.
Here's wishing you a happy voyage home.

Blue of the mighty deep:
Gold of God's great sun.
Let these our colors be
Till all of time be done, done, done, done.
On seven seas we learn
Navy's stern call:
Faith, courage, service true,
With honor, over honor, over all.

*Phew* This was hard!
This is my first time shading, so I hope it turned out alright! I worked on this non-stop, other than the times that my laptop crashed, and gave that stupid Blue Screen of Death.
This whole time, I listened to one song, over and over. I'm sure you could guess, Anchors Aweigh! It's a perfect match for the picture.
This was unbelievably difficult to do! I'm just glad I got it finished. I did get a little lazy on details.
The timer is relatively correct. I did have to redraw things that got lost in crashes, and reorder/sort my layers.Plus, I spent some time glaring at my reference for a few minutes too. Still, I'm sooooo proud of this! I bet this is my best digital art yet!
So, the picture is a Nimitz Class Nuclear Aircraft Carrier, form the movie Disney Planes, he's seen for just about... five minutes all together? He's completely silent in the movie, but talks in the video game. Now, he's my favorite character. No surprises there. I adore aircraft carriers. His name is the U.S.S Dwight D. Flysenhower, kinda strange I know, but hey, he's an aircraft carrier in a movie about planes... Sometimes, he's called "Yorkie"
He looks a little angry... I wonder what happened...
Now, this picture was supposed to be a sketch, a quick sketch, but somehow it became this.... I had my father to help with the elevator, he just pointed out what he thought needed to change. It was really helpful!
I was going to draw some planes on deck, but that's a little too complicated... Still, I'm glad it worked out this way as well.
His cap was giving me no end of headaches, finally I just gave up and just let it stay a little misshaped. Maybe it go too wet or something?
He looks a little strange, a living aircraft carrier, plus his mouth is all the way on his bow, that's a little creepy looking at him the first few times, but I think I've gotten used to it...
*groans* It's just after midnight... I need some sleep, I might update my description later. Now I'm going to make a happy little voyage to bed, maybe get some sleep tonight. But with a year old "kitten" that's kind of rare. She still acts like she's four months old, and still thinks I'm her mama cat.
Anyway, before I go, I have two more things to say:
My reference is here: Well, here actually
and this:
"Yorkie" (c) Disney Toon
USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (c) US Navy
Anchors Aweigh Revised Lyrics (c) John Hagen, and the US Navy
Art (c) Me.

Farewell!




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"I'm a soldier, I'm made for war.... Your kind simply are not." - Ironhide
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As the day dies, with tears in our eyes
There's too few hellos and too many goodbyes
Silence answers our cries...where are we going from here...

We're all on this road, with miles to go
Braving new pathways into the unknown
But who do you ask, when no one really knows
Where we are going from here...
~ Where are we going from here? - Blackmore's Night


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