This is pretty good.

Thank you. I'll admit I seem to remember spending about two hours just staring at another artist diagram of a galleon and doing the whole "The ankle bone is connected to leg bone" thing until I got an idea where to start.

Hey that's good.

The Diagram from A History of Ships Vol2 I think. Or at least the art was reused in that book cause I recognize the rigging details of the "English Low Charged Galleon."

Sailing, sailing, o’er the bounding main . . .

I love it It's amazing, I've always looked up to people like you who can draw ships this good. I'm terrible at them ):

Well I'm no Chris Mayger. I just fake it at the moment.

Away away with fife and drum
Here we come, full of rum
Lookin' for wimmen to paddle our bum
We're the West Atlantic Squadron....

That's very well done, I can't imagine doing something that sophisticated.

Biggest thing that was a pain was understanding why all that rigging had to be there in the first place! As is I greatly scaled back the actual number of lines and ropes to present a cleaner image of the ship.

If I remember correctly, moving the foremast back into the forecastle, rather than being just forward of it, was a change made at the start of the 17th century, so that's a little out of period, although there probably aren't many people who would see the picture who'd know the difference.
The Masting and Rigging of English Ships of War, 1625-1860 presents an excruciatingly detailed picture of just how much cordage went into a warship. It looks as if you have the essence of the standing rigging, and all the running rigging would make it look way too messy -- sheets, tacks, clewlines, buntlines, braces, bowlines, leech lines, reef tackles, braces... all for each sail.

If you're interested enough in the way a ship rig goes together to do additional research, I suggest Rigging Period Ship Models by Lennarth Petersson; it will show you step by step how the rigging went together, with the rigging not part of what is being illustrated elided from the illustrations for clarity.

Well I stated this was my first attempt at a sailing ship almost twenty years ago, and it was just a study not a final finished piece. If I was to do a more finished piece I'd spend more time on rigging research.

But then again depending on far away the ship was in the picture I might not include more detail in the final piece since it would lost in the distance.

There are a couple of oddities in the rig; the position of the foremast and the size of the foresail are the only ones that stand out to me -- the position of the foremast could be handwaved by being very late 16th century, when the mast had begin to be moved back. The other visible oddity is that galleons generally had smaller rectangular lower sails on the fore and main, with 'bonnets' buttoned on to extend the area of the sail in light air; I'd expect to see a seam about a third of the way up from the leech of the foresail, although it might be too far for that to be visible with the level of detail of the picture. And I wouldn't have known that if I hadn't run across it going through a recent acquisition -- Seamanship in the Age of Sail: An Account of the Shiphandling of the Sailing Man-Of-War 1600-1860.

Interestingly, from the same book, the manner in which the mainsail has been taken up is characteristic of Dutch ships; it was rare to see sails taken up that way on ships of other nationalities.

Wow, your so amazing Baroncoon...

That's quite impressive. I was doing stick-figure Mario and Luigi back then.

Always nice. I;ve never been able to do clear parallel lines like that, even with a ruler the seem cluttered and not the same size of a line. You always do great technical drawings ^.^

What was the game title about ?

Well it was for a roleplaying game magazine AD&D, Warhammer, Runequest, Call of Cthulu stuff like that. If I remember correctly they were doing an article types of settings for scenarios other than the much played musty dungeon and castle on the mountain top which has been done to death. They were proposing locales like a tropical island with pirates or an abandoned city that was swallowed up by the desert. The general theme of the article was "Try something different!" I believe this article ran in Shadis magazine but I'm not certain since it was almost twenty years ago.

Now that is GREAT, I mean, I draw ships for ages, and suck in them mostly...

Amazingly detailed. I'll bet you build ships in bottles.

Wow, so much detail to this. I love old ships like this.