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 Pristolepis fasciata , watercolor on cheap 180gsm paper. Unfinished yet.

 The species Betta siamorientalis was described in 2012 and since then, quite a few people I know identified the original called Betta splendens as B. siamorientalis . From the original description, the differences in appearance of the two species are very little. This is only one of a few first drawings I did with water-based acrylic color on canvas. Not much experience with it. The brown background is not really "correct" so I changed it to greenish one. Current status (I might change it later, or not!):

 Thinking about drawing something for fun. Wild form guppies were selected. I started with a pair: I tried to use watercolor pencils at first few sketches but felt it pretty uncomfortable (never used it before) so I returned to watercolor. I decided to add one more male of snakeskin form: The pelvic fin of the first male was wrong so I "deleted" it with white and re-drew. Adding more details: The position of fins on the second male were not very correct but anyway, it's not "taxonomic drawing" :-). I mostly draw fish specimens on a bare background. This time I tried to add a background: Adding more details (fin rays):   I mostly draw fin rays on a fin background painted in advanced. This time I did the opposite: drawing the spaces between fin rays to "create" fin rays.  Also, the dark background make the fish become too bright, I have to "darken" them a little bit. The whole drawing on paper (30 x 40 cm): Drawing a few branches of Ceratophyl...

  Poropuntius (family Cyprinidae) is a genus which is common in South East Asia with a few dozens species. The taxonomy of this genus has not been concluded yet and identifications are rather difficult. I've tried water-based acryclic color recently and below are drawings of 3 Poporuntius species by acrylic on paper. Sizes of drawings are about 24-25 cm. Apart from the first one I'm pretty sure it is P. normani , the other 2 I'm not sure about their species. The last drawing I used  the model which is a flashed photo. The color of the fish is more vibrant and I even increased it more while drawing. The fish is not that colorful in real life. :-)

 A rather common species in coastal South East Asia.

Codlet is a small family (Bregmacerotidae) with 14 species known so far. Little is known about this family. The only specimen I've seen so far is Bregmaceros mcclellandi , about 7 cm SL. When freshly caught, the species has an interesting pinkish color. B. mcclellandi is the first one that was described for the genus (W. Thompson, 1840). The size of my drawing: 16 cm.

 I got this fish from a survey, a single specimen. The photo was bad, without fins spread. So I decided to draw it. Without fins spread, details from them were referenced from several different photos. So the drawing is kind of combined image of the species, not all details are accurate. This was one of my "fast drawing plan"!  This is the only known species of the genus. Stargazing stonefish belongs to Synanceiidae (Stonefish). They live in estuaries and coastal areas. The fish is known to be venomous. Size of the drawing: 12 cm. Draft:   Adding more details:   I decided to stop at this stage, it is possible to do more fine tuning anyway: