Yellow Fish Wash

This assignment called for us to mix a water color wash with our previous 8.5X11 ink drawing. I choose yellow for the body of the fish and contrasted it with a red-orange backround.

For this assignment we were told to use line art to create 10 drawing of objects we see everyday. I choose mostly metallic or plastic objects to avoid to difficult of a texture. This allowed me to really experiment with line weight and strokes. Coming soon will be a larger drawing of two objects chosen by my professor.

8.5x11 Fish

Following the ten 8.5 X 5.5 drawings are next assignment was to take on of the techniques and blow it up to an 8.5X11 drawing. I used a prisma color marker for the larger circles and a sharpie fine tip marker for the detail. I like the free flow of the circles and hoped that it gave the over all illustration a loose feel as if the fish is swimming.

10 fish drawings

For this assignment we were told to use line art and create 10 different pieces of the same self taken photo. I choose a picture of my fish, toulouse, in his fish bowl. I found it is aesthetically pleasing to use curvilinear lines rather than rectilinear since there is so much flow. I did also use a cross hatching technique, however i feel it was only successful on the rocks and not the fish.