fish drawing

This is the first assignment we did in the begaining of this year. We had to design a fish, and draw it in black and white.

It is not hard but I thought this is the most important piece because digital painting is all about applying color with right values. If the black/white version looks weird, the entire drawing will look awkward.

So I have spend a lot of time analysing the form and how light effect it ...Here is the final work.



line work.

After I drew the fish, I started with basic tone. Then I added layers and layers on top of it to define the form. After that, I put high light and darken the part in shadow. Things I found hard to draw are teeth, fin and eye. The teeth was like a cyllinder, but it was extremely hard to do because the highlight is very subtle and I had to control my brush stroke. The fin was transparent. Sense I was not quiet sure about how to create transparent quality, I had a really bad time when drawing it. The eye was relatively easy. I just had to find some reference photo and paint how the photo looks like.

I like how I did with the light and contrast. I applied some principal in air perspective: the things in the front are clear, bright and detailed; the things in the back are blear, dark and less-detailed.

The thing I don't like is the rubbery feel of the skin. I wish it look more like a fish rather than a fish-toy. Maybe I should add some texture. The eye looks a bit plastic, but I am not sure make it more alive.

Anyways, I was really happy because I learned to analysis form in this assignment. I feel a lot more confident when drawing forms after this one, so as I said, this type of practice is really important.