Stages Of My Stylized Fish Print

Yesterday I started a page in my sketchbook further exploring some shapes I had done in the past and found interesting. I developed them into a stylized fish motive and repeated them in quite a rigid way, as I sometimes like to do. I arranged the components in a manner that's far from realistic but still gave the impression of a school of fish.

I completely filled the page with the motive, I find it quite a calming thing to do. Then I started the most fun part in my opinion, which is adding colour and texture. For this one I whipped out my favourite sketching tool: my golden gel pen 😄 I also thought some turquoise would look nice, especially next to the gold. I'm not too crazy about the orange, but when I'm working on something in my sketchbook I usually try not to allow myself to overthink things too much, so I just went with it anyway.

I liked the result so much that I decided to recreate the pattern digitally. I didn't think of taking screenshots, so I've got only the end result to show. I stuck with the original layout and only chose to change the colours to more of my usual palette which varies a bit from time to time, but mostly stays the same. What can I say, I just really like baby pink and mustard yellow! Although, lately, I seem to have developed a fondness for black as well.

So that was my quick little share of something I created today, as I myself always love to see a glimpse of what people have been up to creatively. I'll try to maybe catch more of the stages for next time!

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