Creativity Week 3

 This weeks creativity exercise I wanted to study some wildlife and take the time to replicate natural patterns. While looking for inspiration I had stumbled across many vintage fishing advertisements and decided I would research some of my favorite kinds of fish. Fish are very intresting in their patterns as their scales typically reflect a lot of light OR can take on much more muted and muddy color schemes- all depending on where the breed sits in the food chain. 

 The three fish I decided to paint digitally was; A snook, a sturgeon, and a northern pike.

Unfortunately the pike did not get finished, however I still learned a lot in techniques of replicating how fish look, the sturgeon was my first render, it came out less accurate to the actual lake dweller and the colors didn't really impress me. The snook was my favorite to work on, through a very intense series of stippling, blending, and several different blending layers I feel I was able to get an accurate depiction of scales in water. In the pike piece I started to go after the same process to avoid making the same mistake as the sturgeon, hopefully I will finish this practice at some point!