The Revision of Fishes

[kerravonsen]

I've just listed this piece in my shop. It went through quite a few changes before it got to its final form.

This was the original fluid art:




And there was this cool clip art I wanted to use:




And playing around got me this:




Which of course made me think of the ocean, and fishes. So I added fishes, and seaweed, and thought I was done:




I was thinking of this as some sort of space-age undersea habitat where one was looking out at the fishes, but a friend pointed out that it looked more like a net that had caught the fishes, which was totally NOT what I wanted. At first, I threw away the mesh, and tried making a frame, a combination of plain and fancy, but I wasn't satisfied. So I decided to revisit the mesh, and came up with this:




Which was an improvement, but I wanted to revisit the frame, because a window out into the ocean came back to my original "habitat" idea. But in playing with the frame, I started messing with textures, and that gave me some interesting things... I couldn't get the space-age "brushed metal" look to work, so I ended up going in the opposite direction, with stone.

Behold, the sunken Atlantis with a window out into the ocean: "Atlantean Window".





And there you have it. Revisions, or perhaps detours... not exactly detours, because each version did lead to the next. What do you think?

Comments

[watervole]

The final version is my favourite, though I'm still trying to decide whether I like the frame or not. However, I think overall the frame adds a sense of perspective.

[kerravonsen]

8-)