1. I chose to use pencil to draw my two in one because I thought that it would best suit the piece. They ways that I needed to shade, highlight, and add detail all worked with pencils the most.
2. I decided to add together a pineapple and a fish because I had never seen anything similar and when planning my ideas, I didn't even think about this combination until I noticed how easily you could turn a pineapple into a fish. 3. I first had to draw thumbnail sketches of all of my favorite combinations, my top three was a butterfly hot air balloon, a elephant butterfly and a pineapple fish. Upon looking around the room i saw that plenty of people were already doing an elephant butterfly and I just thought a pineapple fish was a fun idea so I stuck with it. I then began sketching out my piece in my sketch book, and once done I got to work on my main piece. I started with a silhouette of a pineapple, then I added the leaves, then the fish head, and finally the scales. After this the really hard part started. The shading and highlighting. I had to do each individual scale/spike and I took me a while to find a technique that I liked but once I found it I stuck with it. I went from really dark, to medium, back to dark and then to light again. The stem/fins were also really hard because I had a picture reference for the main stem but I had to freehand all the tiny fins, and pineapples have to many twisty turny leaves that it just gets really hard. Finally I got to the kelp in the back ground. I wasn't sure where exactly a pineapple fish might live but I assumed it would be with lots of other plants. I tried to make each piece of kelp unique by changing up the shades, but in retrospect I wish I had done the top part of the plant lighter and the bottom darker because then it would have looked like the sun was shining from up above.
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