This is a Shubunkin Goldfish and her name is Yugameru, Yuga for short. A rare goldfish that actually likes to be hand fed and petted, she can be found in the aquarium of Dine Migliaccio of Squishy Products: http://www.facebook.com/SquishyProducts Dina asked me to draw a portrait of her so that she could frame it :)
It took me well over 6 months to find what I needed to help me correctly draw an octopus. I searched for around a month trying to find some sort of toy, book, image, stuffed animal... of an octopus that I could pose to help me get the angles right and get the suction cups on the octopus's tentacles right. Those suction cups never came out right every time I tried drawing them, which is why I wanted to physical reference so I could get a good idea of what they looked like close up. Well right before we moved from CT to AL I actually found a toy octopus. Of course, when I wasn't actually looking for one. And, after some practice in my sketch book I transferred the image and actually drew the allusive creature! I added a small clown fish in the background to add some more interest to the picture, to make it seem more dynamic. What do you think?
And, of course this piece is available as a print if your interested. Click on the link!
My Deviant Art Group, is getting off to a decent start. I've got 17 members. Which isn't a lot, but it's something after 2 1/2 months of being in existence. I'm figuring out how everything works and the best ways to submit artists work and get artists interested in the group. I don't want to run any contests yet, not until I have at least 50 members, if not more. I think I'd prefer 100 members so at least I'd have a good percentage of people who'd be willing to participate.
The group itself is a dedication to anything that causes some sort of harm, whether is mental distress, nature related disaster, human made machines gone awry.... human destruction, spacial cataclysms... and of course aliens! A lot more people make art about these things than we realize, and this group is a place to see it all come together. I always wanted to find a way to help promote artists and feature work. So if I can get things group up and running I think it could be a big hit!
The group itself is a dedication to anything that causes some sort of harm, whether is mental distress, nature related disaster, human made machines gone awry.... human destruction, spacial cataclysms... and of course aliens! A lot more people make art about these things than we realize, and this group is a place to see it all come together. I always wanted to find a way to help promote artists and feature work. So if I can get things group up and running I think it could be a big hit!
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