Digital Art: Day 4- Murky

First I sketched the fish loosely, just the big curved body, the mouth and the tail, I didn’t worry about making it clean because murky is meant to look messy. Then I painted the background a deep dark green so it looks like deep murky water, and I painted the fish in a lighter grey-green on top of it. Then I added scratchy lines and little dots on the left side of the body and on the side fin to make it look rough and faded, and I blurred the edges a bit so the fish melts into the background. After that on a new layer I painted the eye bright mint green in the middle with a pale glow around it and a tiny bright dot in the centre, and I added a few white specks around it like dust floating around. Finally I added some soft fog over the tail and the edges so the whole thing feels like you’re seeing it through cloudy green, not clearly.

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