Chequer Barb and Dwarf Otocinclus

A friendly Chequer Barb and a tentative Dwarf Otocinclus, drawn with Indian ink and coloured with gouache. Drawn from images in the Aquarium keepers handbook.

I like the beauty of simple fish. Their eyes are more expressive than many of the fancy tropical ones. They can seem trivial and without emotion.

Mushrooms repeat pattern

This is my first felt tip repeat pattern, and its a first draft. It's not perfect, but I'm getting there. I used my retro mushroom picture and cut it up in Photoshop to make it repeat. Its missing the circles in the original which seems to remove some of the vibrancy and movement. The red of the large mushroom creates stripes across the repeat too which needs an adjustment.