Behold a sword fish drawn in procreate on an ipad.
As a challenge a friend and I are doing a drawing of a thing that starts with s each day this month. Starting with swordfish.
Stage one, sketching.
Getting a sense of the thing is key. I really wanted to get a feel for how agile these fish are by capturing the curve.
Then I put in a real basic background trying to capture a bit of seaweed feeling stuff. I like doing the background a bit from the start since it makes it easier to gauge how light/dark stuff is.
Then I blocked in the colour of the sword fish, which both shows how the shape works with the background and kinda helped me see that the head wasn't quite right. Which took me a while to fix later.
Then I started doing the shading and working in details. The head is still wonky but i really am happy with the big fin.
And then with a bit more work we done.
All in all I'm pretty happy with it considering fish aren't one of my normal topics.