This illustration was based on old sailors' tales of the Kraken, a beast mistaken for an island that dragged down ships when a fire on its back woke it to action... except I discovered these were not old sailors' tales, but modern inventions. The creature mentioned here, the Kraken, was never historically accused of sinking boats; and most of the tale of a living island had to do with a different creature, described in older tales... a gigantic fish that would be mistaken for an island. So I did a more accurate illustration for the Kraken, and never inked this one.
I still like it, mind you.
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