Attn: Gore Verbinski and/or Jerry Bruckheimer

It's up! omgz! There were a few more steps than there needed to be (namely doing all the editing and whatnot on 1 laptop and then emailing it to this one for the final stages and uploading) but it's up! Just a sketch at the moment, but hopefully I'll have some time to get coloring and make into something worthwhile.

Here's the story behind this one: I was bored out of my skull at work (Borders) a few days ago and came across a book that was more or less "Real Pirates" in title. I flipped through it and came across a small section on female pirates...well, just the main 2 really. Anne Bonnie and Mary Read. There was a truly ridiculous engraving of Anne Bonnie attacking some guy, and I had to laugh because the engraving itself was pretty shit and they had her opening her shirt to show that yes, she was a woman because here were her bosoms. And then I had an idea! I'm not putting a *spoiler warning* here because I don't feel like it! So if the plan for POTC 4 is to head over to the mighty land known as Florida with Jack Sparrow, and with the whole "10 years later" thing it would make it 17somethingorother, what a perfect opportunity to introduce some American pirates! Specifically a one Anne Bonnie and/or Mary Read before they teamed up and became famous. Good idea, no? Since the dates don't really matter, it could be a slightly younger version of (here) Anne Bonnie, having just set out in the world of piracy from her priviledged life in one of those plantation colonies (Virginia, I want to say). Anyhoo, I think it opens many doors for adventures and antics and dammit, I could totally rock that role!! After I finish my MA of course...

But yes. In conclusion, I would like to give a special shout out to my dad for helping me move yesterday, my full-length mirror for helping with figure reference matters, and to my special white shirt for attempting to help me get the cloth folds right. It's still a work in progress, but it's nothing more practice can't fix!