A wild jumping sailfish by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #inkscape #cc #drawing #design
So, the origin of this was another 365 Request from my very good (and highly missed) friend Rob. He suggested:
“Sailfish jumping out of the water with the sun setting would be neat to see. Esp…ecially how you masterfully craft amazing images. Two to help get started, pictures: live: probably my favorite http://tinyurl.com/sailfishJump “
And so, I looked at the images, did some research of my own on Sailfish, and found some very interesting clinical creative commons licensed images. The one I settled on was at in which the sailfish is depicted in a removed, scientific style — the actual image (attributed to fishbase.com) is at and was a good place to start for the manipulation I had in mind.
So, I took the image and did a bitmap trace, which worked beautifully, and then I applied a “bend” live path effect to simulate the arc in the body that I saw in Rob’s picture and others. In order to give the fish body and depth, I used the watercolor technique of wide strokes of washy, transparent color with the calligraphy tool underneath the bitmap trace. I used a gradient to create the sea and sky, and then created some wild splashing with the same watercolor technique described above.
Thanks, Rob for the inspiration, and thanks to you for stopping by.
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Beautiful! I like the shades of blue that you used in this one. The wild water made from transparent strokes looks awesome, and the dark blue to accentuate the bones stands out beautifully.
Thanks, Syllie! I appreciate the support, as well as the great work you’re doing at http://verysimpledesigns.com/ — Cheers!