Anchor Dog - Pitch Art

A watercolor I did, to give me a better feel for the characters of 's "Anchor Dog."

Anchor on the far left, First Mate Vince on the extreme right with the frying pan.
Dog pirates, w00t. Kinda makes me think of Frank Tashlin. The guy's face is the only part of this I don't like - and his epaulette...

I've been studying Howard Pyle's genesis of the entire Pirate mythos, and seriously, his big secret was that he never showed the action. He showed the points where the action froze.