#look at my fish boy

[monstertsunami]

MY SGRAFFITO PLATES ARE FINALLY DONE !!!!

before/after glaze fires because the detail is soo hard to capture on camera with all the shine..

bonuses & rambles under cut !!

the wing plate was marbled clay & terracotta, and the underside REALLY shows it

bonus bisqueware snake to match the rest of the bisqueware pics. i am disappointed that the green underglaze was lighter than i remembered and muddied all the foliage :( wanted to make it clear in the main post so i chose a photo i took when i had just finished carving.

and the kinda wonky concept design that kicked off all 3! i didnt originally plan to carve each individual scale and leaf .....

process ramble time !!! my studio doesnt have the right type of wheels to use a bat on so i couldnt throw these. which disappointed me at first because handbuilt plates usually look reallyyy wacky and i get quite self concious over imperfections in my clay forms. i developed a really good process to get these as pretty as possible though! I used a convex slump mold to get the shape- convex molds are the best fo get a consistant & uniform face on each plate. usually i do this before the weekend, so when i come back i can carve away all the imperfections on a footing wheel without deforming the plate.

i usually keep it on a mold throughout the entire process- once ive carved the bottom i flip it over and set it in a concave mold to support the rim. this also helps with carving, so the wheels little hands can grab onto the mold and dont interfere with my work. when the plate looks all smooth and nice, i spend the rest of the day underglazing, then i can move on to carving it all away! it took only about 3-4 days of studio time to carve each plates design after it was footed, leaving me the last two days of the week to prep my clay for the next one!

im really happy with how these turned out, they taught me a lot about making mistakes with ceramics and really helped me get confident with my process. honestly it was way easier than my typical sculpture work, cause i already have a ton of experience with the 2D aspects of these designs, while i still have a lot to learn about sculpting even after almost three years of working with clay :3 the loss of detail in the snake's foliage is still disheartening but hell! every piece ive ever made has disappointed me and it only keeps me creating. someday i WILL make something perfect with my own two hands. and no amount of bad glaze choices along the way can fucking stop me.

oh also- the fish & snake plates both have meaning and feature specific species (i just wanted to carve wings into the other plate lol, not too much symbolism there) so take a crack at analyzing them and guessing the species if u wanna!

#art hell #ceramics #earthernware #sgraffito #snake #reptileblr #fish #marine biology #look at my fish boy #sgraffito plate #sgraffito pottery #pottery #ceramic plate #im in such a rambly mood today heheee

[dilfslayer1080p]

I used to wonder why frogbit never seemed to root well in Vader's tank, it never occurred to me that roots are fucking delicious

The roots get crazy long in my other tank so now I'm stuck swapping those out for her leftovers in an endless cycle of root spaghetti

#the other tank has flow that spins the frogbit roots around the stem plants in a tangled mess so we're both winning from this #she gets a feast and tank 2 gets a well needed trim #her and the black skirt tetra posse look like the fuckin fish mafia to me so maybe spaghetti is in their blood #also why can't i change blogs on draft posts this was for the fish blog >:( #look at my fish boy #im just adopting that as the tankposting tag from now on

[aubrey-lovelace]

61/365

#look at my fish boy

[corvids-corner]

some totally normal fish

#yay i love drawing while high yippie #look at my fish boy #wizard #fishzard #my art #partly inspired by Louie Zong's creature art

[wariocompany]

#Look at my fish boy #mp4

[millibelle]

WHY ARE YOU SO PRECIOUS

#bettablr #look at my fish boy

[egophiliac]

messing around with techniques! I...like the foxman and the catboy a lot okay

also, a couple of quickies that honestly don't deserve any more effort than I've already given them:

#art #twisted wonderland #twisted wonderland spoilers #stage in playful land #stage in playfulland #smoking #i mean i assume they evacuated everyone else in addition to the nrc boys #i ASSUME... #look my mind is just gonna be fellow and gidel central until we find out what's happening in december #me as i feverishly pin up red string on my corkboard: okay obviously the first thing will be rook's birthday but then...THEN... #this is twst so it could be anything from 'here is the rest of episode 7 all at once immediately and with 20 limited ssr pickups' #to 'uhhhhhh idk how about a (throws dart at dartboard) beans day rerun with no changes except now (fishes paper out of hat) trey has a card #tis the season for BEANS

[nickyroethemarinebiologist]

Drops these in your inbox in offering (from River Monsters)

YAYYYYYYYYYY MY FAVOURITES EVER <3333333

#TINY BOY! LITTLE LAD! #loving how THRILLED the guys with the big ones look #i would be too #gosh...i need them so bad..... #sturgeons my absolute loves <33 #sturgeon #fish posting

[moeblob]

Harvey telling the farmer it's their time for the annual check up before knowing them for a year is always funny to me. But the fact I keep drawing Asmodeus♡ with a big mouth and fangs made me read the dialogue more like "that's scary, please stop" rather than "okay onto the next part".

Anyway, I have never drawn Harvey before so please enjoy my attempt. (gives him a lil gray. as a treat. to me. the gray is for me.)

#stardew valley #farmer asmodeus♡ #sdv harvey #i need to actually use the wiki for heart events and go on a spree lmao #im actually p high up on hearts for ... a lot of people ? but have seen so few heart events for em #cause im too busy doing fishing requests or the bonkers hey i need 100 amaranth on the fall request board thing #where its bigger tasks #cause hoo boy that took way too much of my time and i didnt really get to socialize much with the town except for randomly in passing #and so the relationships kinda halted progress mid to late fall #BUT ITS FINE GUYS #I finished fall ! and on fall 28 im proud to announce #asmo is no a good level 10 fisher #and i would like to say that its really funny that my last request was for a salmon on fall 28 #and im like dude requesting this you better be glad i have confidence in getting this in one day #since it was willy i was just sitting outta the shop fishing and then realized wait a second #i have about 7000g and an iridium rod is 7500g #so i caught the salmon and a few more to boost me up to 7500g and as soon as i go in to buy the rod #i look at my level and oh nice its now level 10 #happy level 10 have a new rod as a treat i guess asmo.... you have 131g now have fun

[mokeonn]

Eusthenopteron in hats

#simon says #my art #art #artists on tumblr #digital artist #paleoart #digital art #paleontology #prehistoric animals #eusthenopteron #this took so long lmaoooo #but hoooo boy #super fun and good practice in lineless art and drawing fish #i would tag this as theropod but the Eusthenopteron was just a close relative #tristichopteridae #terapodomorph #i have no idea how to tag this lmaooooo #it's a prehistoric animal babey!! #I use an illustration from a dinosaur book I have as the main reference for both color and fins #but I saw that some recreations have the fins look more shark-like #but by the time I saw those recreations I was already too far in lmaooo #get pretty pretty fish fins and colors

[fishyfishyfishtimes]

I can't believe I never posted this, here's a whale shark villager I drew in 2020!!

#i glazed this bad boy! in case it looks a little bit funny in some spots. #i drew her when i was super obsessed with whale sharks :) i was sad there were no other aquatic villagers besides squids #i still wish we had more non-mammalian villagers!!!! what if we had fish!!!!! what if we had arthropods!!!! #i wont go on a tangent now but… yeah #whale shark #shark #sharks #art #my art #animal crossing

[bizarreandjarring]

just an old hick goin' fishin

plus kim "i am winning at fishing. something which is both normal to want and possible to acheive" kitsuragi

ref

#I FOUND THE LINK TO THE ART I REF'D FINALLY #HARRY. FRECKLES. TRUTHER. #also i have seen too much art of them looking cool and good #i am balancing it out by making them boring middle aged men who go fishing #harry got them both the tshirts for their weekend fishing trip #and kim spent a lot of time researching fishing techniques because he has a visceral need to be competent at everything he does #harry: the point of this weekend is to get outdoors and have fun!!! kim: if i dont catch a big fish im going to drown myself in this lake #also kim: did you have to wear your sluttiest little manwhore shorts it is distracting #harry: i can take them off if you'd rather ;) #disco elysium #harry du bois #kim kitsuragi #my art

[t00thpasteface]

POV: you are following me rn

#getting really into M*A*S*H is how i'm coping with the stress of studying to be a marine biologist in such a scary time #i admit it's a weird flavor combination i'm sure. but evidently it's paying off. look at my fish and doctors boy #also look guys i figured out how to animate in photopea (i used to do all my gifs in photoshop but i finally lost access to it last year) #art #fish #animation #gif #mash #m*a*s*h #hawkeye pierce #red snapper

[fantasykiri5]

Luca smallidarity AU Luca smallidarity AU

Additionally, shoutout to Grian who looks like he could be going to a fucking carnival. I’m not changing his hat design it’s fucking perfect

#my art #it’s weird drawing Grian human looking he doesn’t seem like he should be human looking #anyways haha yeah gay fish #ok Joel is Alberto Jimmy is Luca and Grian is Gulia #I’m not sure who else is who but I was rambling about it in this tag -> #Bad Boys Luca AU #or at least I hope so. anyways #smallidarity #empires shipping #traffic shipping #jimmy solidarity #jimmy solidarity fanart #joel smallishbeans #joel smallishbeans fanart #Grian #Grian fanart #super fav #bad boys #the bad boys

[solomiracle]

i think levi should have disney princess powers when it comes to sea creatures. he can talk to everything that lives in the ocean, from tiny krill to devildom sea monsters that would make megladon look like a guppy

#just imagined him encouraging newly hatched sea turtles to the water and now im crying #asmo looses his diamond earring when swimming and levi gathers a legion of fish to look for it #my sea freak bitch boy #<3 #obey me #hcs #obey me headcanons #levi obey me #obey me levi #leviathan obey me #obey me leviathan #levi headcanons #leviathan headcanons #from me #3

[civetcider]

i can’t believe elephant seals are real

#doodles #elephant seal #seal #lil funnies #actually one of my favorite animals they look so funny #like living puppets #i know one would kill me in a half second but boy do i wanna pet that thing #why did blob fish become like a meme thing #when 1 they dont actually look like the pink lil nose guy #and 2 ELEPHANT SEALS ARE RIGHT THERE