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Replicating some logbook drawing vibes. I always appreciate coming across a lad who hazarded drawing some block letters that ended up looking so discordant with his regular handwriting.
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Panel 1 [Pulled back shot of two whaleboats out on the still water, Barzillai and Mathews each giving their boats commands of maneuvers]
BARZILLAI:
Stern all! Back your oars!
MATHEWS:
Keep stroke greenies, keep stroke! Blades in the water all at the same time!
Panel 2 [Lawrence remains on the ship, leaning on the bulwarks and scribbling in his journal]
Panel 3 [A close up of Lawrence drawing the scene out on the water, with the header ‘practice chasing whales’]
Panel 4 [In a small panel he glances up as someone’s voice off screen has caught his attention.]
ADELAIDE:
Good morning.
BARZILLAI:
Stern all! Back your oars!
MATHEWS:
Keep stroke greenies, keep stroke! Blades in the water all at the same time!
Panel 2 [Lawrence remains on the ship, leaning on the bulwarks and scribbling in his journal]
Panel 3 [A close up of Lawrence drawing the scene out on the water, with the header ‘practice chasing whales’]
Panel 4 [In a small panel he glances up as someone’s voice off screen has caught his attention.]
ADELAIDE:
Good morning.
the way i lit up like !!!!!!!! at seeing Lawrence’s journal with the illustrations. like ‘hey just like the whaling journals I’ve read!”… which I’ve only read because I follow your blog and saw them there lol. of course its like those journals. anyway it made me really happy to see
Hahaha it feels very meta to do his journal pages.