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Camp NaNoWriMo cover

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The cover for the Camp WriMo novel I'm working on this month. I actually drew these characters some time ago (and touched up the background digitally last night) with a vague idea of how they were cursed by a voodoo lady and somehow connected through this. When *Captain-Savvy urged me to try Camp WriMo, I decided to flesh out that idea (and combine it with an idea of fishmens fighting I had in my last WriMo attempt, which featured Sav & me (we have a small role in this novel as retired pirates that own a tavern)) and use this as the cover. It's not that great (I might add color some time) but I wanted to share it, because I love the characters.

There's Harold Finn (based on the appearance of Errol Flynn), a boastful buckanneer and published author of his pirate adventures that he stole from the people that actually lived the adventure (kinda like Gilderoy Lockheart from Harry Potter) but he's cursed to dream them as the heroes of the stories die in their adventures.
Joey (actually romanized as Gyoei, but his mates can't pronounce it), a ronin that came over to the Americas after having to kill his master (because his lie detecting/mind reading curse revealed his plan to kill the emperor)
Legless Lenny, cursed with eternal life after trying to steal the voodoo lady's voodoo secrets to become the most notorious pirate (or immortal in infamy), but his flesh has rotted away after many years, so now he's a living skeleton, and his legs got taken by alligators.
And Enitan, the voodoo lady as a sort of puppetmaster in the background, but she's gonna guide them against the fishmens that want to take over the world, and they'll be able to use their curses in their advantage...
There's also a burly Scotsman in the story called Burly McArthur, whose strength increases and wanes with the tides, but his character was conceived only just before I started writing, long after the penciling of this piece was done, so he's not here (he's kinda like Winston Zeddemore of the Ghostbusters, who didn't make it into the video games).
The title of the novel for now is '☠' (the unicode symbol of the skull and crossbones), till I can think of something better.
So there you have it...
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willuholdme's avatar
Love it!  Also Legless Lenny reminds me of a character from One Piece :)