#ssandreadoria

Draw a portrait of the living version of one of my favourite ocean liners to live out the cabin fever we're currently in until we can all go outside again. The SS Andrea Doria in all her pride and glory, and looking so graceful at me.

I really need to start drawing ships again, as there's a lack of users that are doing any in the highest of quality at the moment.

Just a picture I decided to do, of a young woman standing on the stern deck of the Andrea Doria. As she watch's the sun goes down over the horizon, as another ocean liner passes by.

Also, this is my first time using Gimp for lighting and shadowing.

This is it, after midnight on this foggy night, in 1956, the Swedish liner, SS Stockholm (now known today as the Astoria) struck the Italian luxury liner, Andrea Doria, and her bow rammed the liner’s starboard side, killing 51 of her passengers. Immediately, the Andrea Doria began listing, and everyone had to evacuate.

At 20 miles off the coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts, she remained afloat while listing at 20 degrees after an immediate distress call was contacted for French Liner, the SS Ile De France, two navy ships and the coast guard. With that, almost all 1,700 victims were saved by four ships. Before the Doria slowly capsized on that morning, her final moments were filmed and photographed by Pulitzer Prize winner, Harry Trask, and plunged beneath.