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Published: 2003-11-18 06:31:55 +0000 UTC; Views: 6042; Favourites: 80; Downloads: 2507
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Meant to look like the sort of thing you see in a fishing guide. Pretty simple appearance, though I'm not going to dark scales with light borders in watercolour again in a hurry. Nothing amazing.Was done for a small musem in New South Wales, changed management soon after, not sure if they ended up using my work. This was intended as just a small diagram next to a caption for one of their dispalys.
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This is truly inspiring, and a true work of art!
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I luv's lungfish, but it's eyes!IT'S LIKE THEY'RE STARING INTO MY VERY SOUL!!!!!!
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Yeah, there's only three species around today (I think), sort of fit in between fish and amphibians in the evolutionary scheme of things. Fossils go back 300 million years or so.
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sounds like you're on top of the taxonomy of these critters
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Well, not actually - they, after all, gave rise to all the land vertebrates today. But as fish, there have been only a few survivors since Mesozoic.
Great work, however. 
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Yup - only 3 genera around ... 
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Well, I have to agree, great technique! Aren't lungfish Prehistoric or something?
Anway, great piece!
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Er, sorry about that, forgot I was signed in under that. Also apologize fr the double (now triple) post, but that seems to be DA fault. *Slinks away*
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Well it's alright, I don't mind people repeating themselves when they're saying nice things!
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Damn, just... I can't ever see myself drawing a fish. This is just gorgeous, though, and that you did it so quickly just... damn it! I've never had a painting of a fish inspire me! The colors and the shading are just perfect.
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Damn, just... I can't ever see myself drawing a fish. This is just gorgeous, though, and that you did it so quickly just... damn it! I've never had a painting of a fish inspire me! The colors and the shading are just perfect.
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Basically painted the light bits first then went over it repeatedly with increasingly darker browns. Sketched it lightly with pencil first - it's really easy to mess this sort of scale patern up (end up with rows of scales bunching up somewhere). Scary doing it in water colour - very hard to make corrections - one slip and its all over. I was amazed how hard I found it to stop my self from going over the edges of the scales and obliterating the light bits. In watercolour dark edges on light scales would be so much easier! also hard to get the light and shade effects worked in as well.
I intentionally left the fish looking dull with no shine on it as it is supposed to be under water...pretty much what they look like in life. I've since seen quite a few of them here at uni - some guys here study them. And they can be enormous - a few weeks back they had three that were 'pig' sized - apparently not fully grown!
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Very nice...as Jordo said, the scales are very well done.
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Great technique on the scales. I'd love to know how you did that. Looking forward to seeing more of your paleoart work...
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