Seagull: "Out of curiousity, any idea how long it took?"

As I recall, it was a project that evolved over several weeks. The ship was the easy part. Getting the sky, ocean, and waves as realistic lookng as possible in a vector graphics program like XaraX was quite a challenge. However, with the aid of several photographs of ocean scenes, and a little patience, it all came together.

The down side of my work is its complexity and the effect that so many complex graphical components with thousands of nodes has on computer performance. One of these days I'm going to have to work out a simpler method for creating these images. In retrospect, I really should have taken advantage of the layers feature of XaraX.