Saturday, January 8, 2011

8/365: At home with perch and burbot

8/365: At home with perch and burbot

January 8th

I like to say I'm currently unemployed, but the actual truth is that I'm freelancing. It's nice, because I have lots of time to go outside and take pictures, but some days I do have to sit down and make a deadline.

The illustrations I've been doing recently are all going into schoolbooks, so it is rather important that the perch looks like a perch and that the burbot is not missing its fishy goatee. Enter my vast collection of picture reference books. That's an encyclopaedia of animals which my mum got me at a flea market. Very useful. Because google is good, but google plus books is better.


-Rodia

3 comments:

  1. Your illustrations are marvelous.
    My youngest just started art lessons last Monday.
    He's good. Not as good as you, mind you, but mommy bragging aside, he's good.

    I love your work with pen and watercolor as well as a camera.

    Calma

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  2. Nothing beats a book. :)

    I did an art project that was of a similar format to that when I was at school - a cross-section of the sea. It turned out I was good at drawing turtles and was called upon to draw everyone a turtle. :D

    But your skill is in another category and I love both your art and the photo. :)

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  3. You do fish very well, among other things too. ;) I too love all your artwork.

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