EARLY ACCESS // pink fish (Patreon)

You guys might recognize this one! It’s the pink fish drawing from my painting & rendering tutorial in procreate. You can watch the process of creating the original sketch here, and the process of painting & rendering it here!

There were some things that were bugging me about the way the painting looked at the end of that tutorial, so I gave it a complete overhaul and turned it into something really different. I think the main thing that was bugging me was that it was a very smooth and soft drawing. It was missing some chunkiness and edginess that I’ve been gravitating towards in my art lately. I’ve also been feeling really drawn towards red, rather than pink, so I ended up moving more in that direction as well. I’ve just been craving more angular shapes and intense colors.

I think the evolution of this painting shows you guys how I analyze my own style and try to push my work in new directions based on what I “feel like” at that time in my artistic development! Sometimes I want more softness, sometimes I want more roughness. Hope you like it, even though it’s so different from the tutorial version!