the completed version of one of my latest complete pieces...I haven't been doing so well in the art world, but at least there's some hope.

I finished this a while ago. I don't know why I didn't submit it. This is the creature inspired by the flying fish I saw on my cruise. (they looked like bluejays flying just above the water! so awesome!) I wanted to create a fish-like dragon....but I ended up doing something completly different from what I had in mind, which was this multi-blued and silver frilly thing, not whatever it is here. For some reason, when I was drawing this, it was like there was this force that pulled me into ignoring my initial imagination. Whatever I wanted to do, somehow this little drawing said I should try something else

....the only piece I've ever done where I was almost talking to a fish....

Anyway, I followed his directions....not very dragony, though still very oriental, not very frilly, and a more rainbow of colors than anticipated. He still looks very pretty.

Flying fish: [link] [link]
The inspiration for the gills, the siren salamander: [link]

none of these refferences, or any other form of refference, was available to me for most of this piece, and even when available, because I'm that lazy, I never used them.

Done in watercolor pencils with india ink outline and slight touches of white charcoal and white colored pencil for sheen