Original sketch

"A more villainous-looking lot never hung in a row on Execution dock... In the midst of them, the blackest and largest in that dark setting, reclined James Hook... He lay at his ease in a rough chariot drawn and propelled by his men, and instead of a right hand he had the iron hook with which ever and anon he encouraged them to increase their pace. As dogs this terrible man treated and addressed them, and as dogs they obeyed him..."

from Peter Pan
by James Barrie

Ebeneezer Scrooge's "late" partner's ghost, Jacob Marley, visits him to warn of a further three ghostly visitations on Christmas Eve.

From Charles d**kens' "A Christmas Carol".

Sketch 1: http://img716.imageshack.us/f/sketch1g.jpg/

Sketch 2: http://img832.imageshack.us/f/sketch2.jpg/

Sources: http://img843.imageshack.us/f/sources.jpg/

Marley: http://img820.imageshack.us/f/marleyb.jpg/

Scrooge: http://img801.imageshack.us/f/scrooge.jpg/

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
My free interpretation of one of the most memorable moments in the history of Jules Verne:

... in the depths of the ocean, the Nautilus, Captain Nemo's submarine
built in the shape of a fish, is attacked by a giant cephalopod ...

The creativity and imagination can produce very different interpretations.
Many people think that the Nautilus sailed into deep water.
The greatest depth mentioned in the book is just four leagues.
(20,000 leagues is equivalent to 2.4 times the circumference of the Earth).

The title refers to the distance traveled on the seafloor and not deep.
The literal translation of the French title would end in the plural "seas", implying "seven seas"
through which the characters travelled. However, the early English translations of the title used "sea",
ie the sea, in general, as in "going offshore" ...

THE DRAFT AND SOME SOURCES

Concept rough sketch
Thanks to www.sxc.hu for some of the sources

The hideously deformed title character from The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux (1911), the original source for the musical and the many films.
Sketch, sources and references.

A steamship smashes through the raft.

Drawing
Sources