It's been a while since I painted an aquarium scene and I LOVE painting them, so I did a little fish village thing. If it isn't village-y enough for you, just picture the tank sitting in the local doctor's surgery.
I made the mistake of using watercolour pencils because I wanted to try them out. It was a disaster, so this image has had some minor touch-ups in Photoshop. Watercolour pencils are not the most accurate things in the world, and the colour went on so thick that there wasn't much leeway for me to do anything much with it after that. I so wish I'd just used watercolour paints, but I've learned for next time. Watercolour pencils = not much detail, much larger space. Got it.
Don't get me wrong, the pencils were really nice to use (and there's 72 colours that I didn't have to mix, yaaaay!), but they clearly weren't suited for so much detail in such a tiny space. The paper is the 10"x7" block as per usual, so you can imagine how tiny the aquarium gravel is. Also, hand drawn and individually coloured aquarium gravel? NEVER AGAIN.
Next art challenge starts tomorrow, and the theme is "supernatural"! I have so many ideas in my head already that I have absolutely no idea what I'm going to go with. Should be interesting!
