Fancy Fish

Back after much, much too long with another fish painting.

Anyway, this was just a fun personal thing I wanted to try after learning a new painting style at work. It's a great style to use for sharp, graphic elements and it makes the process go super-fast. Also, it's easy to edit the piece if edges need to change or something needs to get resized.

I started with a sketch I liked...

Then tweaked that sketch in Photoshop...

From there I painted it up, using all kinds of cool tropical photo reference. I wanted to give this thing crazy bold color design...

After I felt satisfied with my first draft...

I sent it off to my always insightful coworker Bob Rissetto, and with his help I was able to take it to a level I really liked...

I also got an inspired suggestion from my girlfriend about a funny alternative interpretation. I had to see what that looked like too...

I'm happy that I ended up with a group of these; I feel like I was able to fully explore its potential.



Until Next Time.