Where it started
My boat is not a pirate ship, but I imagined what Bounty Bay would look like if it were. What started as a simple sketch quickly became the first glimpse of a much bigger world.
Adding colour and personality
Once the sketch was there, I started adding colour and seeing what happened. Nothing fancy — just imagination, experimentation, and the little coloured pencils that seem to follow me everywhere. Looking back now, some of the colours changed later, but this was the point where Bounty Bay began to feel less like a drawing and more like a world.
This was also the point where the ideas started to grow beyond the ship itself. Characters began to appear, stories started forming, and I found myself imagining what life aboard Bounty Bay might be like.
Finding the world
This was the point where I stopped refining a ship and started building a world. The colours deepened, the atmosphere found its place, and Bounty Bay became something larger — a home for creativity, stories, experiments and ideas that didn’t need to fit neatly into one box.
Since then, Bounty Bay has inspired everything from artwork and merchandise to sea-shanty projects, pirate-themed learning resources and the beginnings of a much larger creative world.
Captain’s Log:
On reflection, I’m glad I followed the idea rather than worrying where it fit. Bounty Bay has slowly become a place where creativity, learning, stories and experiments can live side by side — and I suspect the journey is only just beginning.
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