Good sense of space here, and just enough detail to 'tell' the scene. The pistol, three-cornered hat, and rigging show solid authenticity while the equally faithful cannon delivers the altitude of the characters nicely. Vell done!

Wow.....just wow.......this is a fantastic pic you did! O.O

I like the pirate theme of this picture. Very well detailed! :)

This is, I think, my favorite pirate-themed picture ever, now. The two girls are adorable, and terribly, terribly sexy. Thank you.

Superb. Th' detail is excellent.

Excellent art, Taral. Great details and design on the pirate ship. Very cute and sexy skunk and rabbit.

This one's always been a fave of mine, Mr. Taral. Glad to see you're showing it off here.

It was a job. I paid money. It was worth it. Truly a superb effort, far better than what I could have drawn.

Pirates FTW!! Nice job on it. =)

gotta fav this.... i lurv pirates =^.^= for freedom! for adventure! not for jack sparrow....

Alas, most pirates probably ended up invalided or at the end of a rope in about two years. Minor pirates -- the sort who scooted out from small New England or Carolina villages to pillage a merchanman of some cloth and nails -- probably had longer if less glorious careers. And then there's that adage about famous pirates. Those were the ones who were caught. Successful pirates were the ones nobody knew about...

There were at least two well known female pirates. One was Ann Bonnie, the other Mary Read. Both came to bad ends...

That's the sort of picture i'd enjoy colouring in. However it's a fairly exciting one even without colour.

PIIIIIIRATES!!

Found this site, Has quite some interesting articles.

http://www.sword-buyers-guide.com/p.....e-cutlass.html

A cutlass is a good, all-purpose weapon for a variety of situations in the hands of poorly trained sailors. It is part saber, part meat cleaver, and you can stick it in things too! A more skilled swordsman generally prefers something more agile, whether a rapier, scimitar, katana or cavalry saber, because he relies more on where he places his point or edge than on overpowering armour. But it you have to get your way through some kind of plate or mail, a cutlas certainly will do the job.

My favourite weapon is something I thought up -- the last half of the shank is metal, and used to counter swords. The end is a right angle (slightly actute angle, actually) hook, whose shaft is triangular rather than round -- it's designed to puncture mail or armour. The other end is a metal knob to cause concussion instead of penetrate. It is not best used against shields, where it might stick, so it has to be long enough you have some hope of reading around a shield -- about three feet, allowing a grip three or four inches from the end. Balance would be important, so I assume a heavy pommel to counter the weight at the other end.

But, then, I wasn't picturing this in use by human beings, but by people far stronger, so that weight is not an issue.