'Moby Dick Cruises the South China Sea'

THIS RENDER: "Hakugei: The Legend of the Great White Whale:" The assignment with this image was to insert the battered and and suffering ocean behemoth into an all natural travel encounter with Chinese fishermen "Diàoyú lèsè" fishing junk. Moby Dick had been hunted relentlessly. The original which was drawn on a paper page for sketch illustration fulfilled my need for both my poster art project and my assigned drawing for the book "Hakugei: The Legend of the Great White Whale."

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My fascination with this image was being able to successfully insert the battered and and suffering ocean behemoth into an all-natural human fishing activity on a stretch of ocean alluded to but never described by Herman Melville.

ART CATEGORY: I rendered this illustration study with ballpoint pens, inks, and India ink. The gentle seawater surges and wave motion textures were rendered with several Bic ballpoint sessions.

BOOK SYNOPSIS: "Moby-Dick; or, The Whale" is an 1851 novel by American writer Herman Melville. The book is the sailor Ishmael's narrative of the obsessive quest of Ahab, captain of the whaling ship Pequod, for revenge on Moby Dick, the giant white sperm whale that on the ship's previous voyage bit off Ahab's leg at the knee.

FROM THE WIKIPEDIA FILM SYNOPSIS: Capt. Ahab (Gregory Peck) has a vendetta against Moby Dick, the great white whale responsible for taking his leg. He sets out on a treacherous sea voyage aboard The Pequod, along with a crew including Starbuck (Leo Genn), Father Mapple (Orson Welles) and Ishmael (Richard Basehart), to hunt down the elusive beast. With reckless abandon, Ahab leads the crew on his obsessive and suicidal quest, anxious for a final showdown with the legendary white whale.