FurIdaho ACEO I - Fiesta Fish

On the last day of FurIdaho, at the end of March this year, I didn't have much to do while manning my artist alley table, so I had the idea to use the new "Textured" artist trading card paper I had recently bought. I had also been to a tattoo appointment the previous day during which I noticed a technique my tattoo artist was using in the pencil sketches she has hanging on the walls in her cubicle: a grid of lines to make fish scales. Remembering that, I decided to try the grid on a simple goldfish. I LOVE it. The grid technique, I mean. I always wanted to figure out a way to make good-looking, consistent scales and this is the best ^^

The rainbow coloring was just for fun, to make the drawing something I could really enjoy, but it inspired me to continue the pattern of rainbow animals while I was in the artist alley

Sakura Pigma Micron pen, Copic marker, Prismacolor colored pencil, and Sakura Gelly Roll gel pen on Strathmore 80 lb. Textured paper, 2.5x3.5"

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