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 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:

This blog is about my drawing works, mostly fishes. I did some fish watercolor drawings about 10 years ago just for fun. And then I'd stopped since then. About six months ago, when I discussed with some of my colleagues about the fishes in an area that we have done surveys together, the idea of drawing come back! I did a few trial drawings and they turned out to be not so bad! :-)   An Acantopsis , one of the drawings that I'd tried when started to draw again. Size of the drawing: 23 cm. And then we've started to discussed seriously about fish drawing as a mean of illustrations for more "official" documents. I haven't been through any art or painting training, therefore my "techniques" is rather straightforward: "you try to draw what you see"! :-) Generalization of an object is one of my weakest points because I've always tried to "copy" the maximum level of details that I've seen. So far, the only materials I've used ...