Digital Painting: Catch of the Day

Once every color is in place I made detailing. To capture the sketch, I paint \ the little gold fish really looking worried and frightened.

Below is the close-up view of the gold fish. I did a very light coloring on the tail and fins to make it a little translucent.

After finishing the gold fish I followed by placing some gloss highlights and some hint of refraction on the glass bowl. I added some solid brown in the bottom to make several pebbles and some aqua to give feeling of murky water below.

I detailed the pebbles and added some green aquatic plant to finish rendering of the glass bowl. I added a final touch of specular gloss on top of the plant, gold fish and pebbles to make the impression that it's inside the glass.

What is an aquarium without bubbles?

To finish the painting, the last thing I did was to create another layer and placed it on the extreme bottom of the stacked layers. Then I played around painting the wall and ground. I need to make the wall color almost the same color as the water on the fish bowl in order to have seamless image. Finally the shadows are added to characters and bowl. Since bowl and water is a transparent object it cast the same color as the liquid or transparent container and gives off caustics when lit by light. Click image to view final painting.

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