DSG 582: Creature: Mud Fish

[dsg bot]

Today's topic is: Creature: Mud Fish

[Hamsta]

It's muddy mud-skipper, it's muddy... :)

This ancient fish is a long extinct branch on the same tree that holds modern lung fish. Despite being wonderfully to it's enviorment, with it's primitive air breathing lungs along with gills, it's upturned mouth, so it won't swallow excess mud, it's fins have adapted a sort of "walk," and it has very rough skin, allowing better grip and the disdain of predators. Unfortunetly, a 3°c drop in ocean temperature meant only females were hatched and the species become extinct soon after.
10 min. sketch, 10 min. PS coloring job
http://img9.exs.cx/img9/2772/582mudfish.jpg

[jondan]

This is George. George took part in the casting for "Finding Nemo" and they said, they will call him. Guess what? They never did.
At least, he says, his wife thinks, he's sexy.
Poor old George, doesn't he know his wife is deeply in love with Flipper? :[

http://www.damagecorp.de/jon/pics/mudfish.jpg

About 30 mins. in ps.

[Retinal Haze]

http://www.brianbaum.com/art/dsg2.jpg

[Dascrewup]

hello good pieces evryone keep it up :)

here is mine ps about 1/2hour or more
african mud fish hehe... not the exact colours
http://www.aoce87.dsl.pipex.com/mud.jpg

[goran]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v17/smogyboy/production%20design/mud-fish.jpg

[Swan]

Isn't cool how the strangest topics bring out some of the most wonderful sketches? All of your posts are so good!

Mine is 1 hour in my new copy of Painter IX, which I'm still (obviously) in the "playing with" stage.

http://www.jenniferwilliamson.com/dailysketch/mudfish-sketch.jpg

Goran -- the light reflection on that sucker is perfect. Just perfect.
Hamsta -- YES! That kicks! I love what you've done with this. Love it!

[Hazzard]

Right ok I nearly murdered my computer trying to upload this DAMNED image. Finaly I had to resort to someone actualy uploading it for me and then giving me the link! http://www.colonialuniverse.com/images/mudfishy.JPG


And there it is. now excuse me while I teach my computer a lesson! >:{

Hamsta: MAN! you are improving dude. Keep it up!

Jondan: You know you got the stuff :wink:

Retinal Haze: Superb character study!

Dascrewup: Very nice, well polished!

Goran: Great murky water! Very nice as usual.

Swan: Very cool. Like the angle of the shot aswel.

[Nike]

....nice topic today...I enjoyed doing this

pencil, ink and markers:

http://spacewalkers_rest.250free.com/mudfish.jpg

hamsta: great, like the insects above it's head
jondan: George rules :D
Retinal Haze: very nice one
Dascrewup: the only real mud fish so far :)
goran: great, love the colors
Swan: cool, one, too
Hazzard: great, your fish has a funny face expression :) very nice background and reflection on the water

[NeKrophiliaK]

I've been wanting to do some daily sketches for a while, so here goes! This took about an hour, including me dusting off the tablet and getting the damn thing working. It's a pencil sketch painted in Photoshop, I think it turned out pretty good considering I haven't used the Wacom in several years. I hope to get back in the swing of things soon.
http://www.cyberspace-market.com/sketches/mudfish.jpg
Yeah, he's pretty clean coming out of all that mud. Maybe it's Teflon© :nohope:

[stormeffex]

hamsta: i love the mudfish with the flies.

jondan: nice sketch...it almost feels like a peter de seve character. keep it up man.

retinal haze: good start.

goran: that's a killer mudfish. looks like a cross between a pike and a slug.


here's my mudfish. done in ps7 in about 1 hour.

http://www.stormeffex.com/temp/mudfish.jpg

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[darqueside]

here goes :P ....

comments appreciated :)



http://www.robert.inkspots.net/mudfish.jpg
bout an hour while workin on other things

[lilschecky]

hey guys, everything looks great!

Jondan: nice work. the shading and the colors are perfect
stormeffex: same goes for you. love the unique approach
hazzard: great expression!
NeKrophiliaK: ha!
darqueside: reminds me of a "swamp creature". the tree stump is probably my fav, though.
nike: love these sketches
swan: it looks so cute!

wonderful stuff! i wish i had time to do one, homework, however, prevails. :er: