Drawing Fish 52 – 43_False Albacore
Drawing Flies 52 False Albacore (“Albie”). Wanted to stay with the East Coast fishing this week, and keep it in the salt, too. The colors and marking on Albies are well-suited to an artistic palette, in this case the digital CMYK palette in Adobe Illustrator.
Update: I had pretty much this image in my head when I decided to do an Albie. The colors and markings of this fish really look great no matter how one paints it, analog or digital. I felt that a digital direction was right for this fish, and I got the color saturation and crispness that I was after. I would really like to paint this fish life-size in real paint, but the digital representation has a sense to it that is not as easy to get otherwise. I think that an airbrush and a canvas about 12 feet long would also be a cool way to approach this, but not in 30 minutes!
There is another fish—dorado—that I really want to approach this way, and if Jeff doesn’t call it first I’ll request it on one of “my” weeks before this project is finished.
Go check out Jeff’s sweet analog Albie.
Love it Jason!
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Thanks, Will. I really wanted to do an Albie for the DF52 project, and the image above is pretty much what I had in my head when I first pictured it. WIth the colors and markings of Albies, I could happily do analog and digital versions over and over.
JB – Beautiful! It is funny, I was looking at highlighting those same distinguishing marks! Great job!
Jeff—I think it’s hard to look at an Albie and NOT think about focusing on that (as an artist)! So, I wouldn’t have been too surprised to see us doing essentially the same, exact thing. Your fish looks great in any case, and you always amaze as to how much you manage to get done in our 30 minute window, my friend.