Did ya miss me? I missed posting. I was recently on a family trip and had rather limited internet and technology access and now I am good to go with the daily posting, and have a back log of posts to make. So you'll be getting daily posts again for quite a bit. Exciting right?
For Sardine I had a few thoughts, what with them being a pizza topping but as I looked up reference images I decided I wanted to challenge myself and try to capture the feeling of a school of them underwater.
For the crafting of this artwork I began with working on getting the underwater feel.
And then worked in the ocean floor. Which I think already built in a sense of depth.
Then I filled in some fish. For the smaller further out ones I thought of it more as a texture rather than drawing individual fish.
Then I built up the second school some more.
Then added some more fish between the two and moving closer.
I was already pretty pleased with it at this point but kept building up the closer fish.
The the final step was to add more fish, and my signature.
This was a really fun challenge and if I were to develop it more i'd add more detail to the fish closest to the camera but when you're only giving yourself a day to draw something there are limits. Plus I was starting to get bored.
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