#SundayFishSketch

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 Oyster Toadfish - Opsanus Tau

Tailspot Blenny - Ecsenius Stigmatura


I recently set up a twitter account (https://twitter.com/arik_burniston), and came across this awesome weekly sketch called #SundayFishSketch

I want to get more into sciArt/scientific illustration whilst also leaving my mammalian comfort zone so this was a perfect kick up the backside.

Not only that, but I'm also only doing it traditonally so I'm learning a lot about how to use my coloured and inktense pencils which have sat in a shoe box for almost three years now. My next step will be to learn how to use watercolours and - probably more importantly - how to get rid of grain in photographed and scanned images. Because those full res images are an eye-sore right now haha.

But for now, here are my first few attempts - an Oyster Toadfish and a Tailspot Blenny.

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