Betta fish

Image Art by @Ilga

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Ilga Jansons

@Ilga

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© Ilga Jansons

I've been so impressed with the ball point pen art that I have seen on this site, that I decided to give it a try. This is a Betta fish (Siamese fighting fish) done in red, blue, and purple ball point pens. Obviously, I have much to learn....but it was great fun and I have ordered some more colors since I plan on experimenting more. I've enclosed a photo of the work in progress and the various reference photos I used. The colors are more true to the final scan than in the flash photo of my drawing table.

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    Joer_B (@JoerB)
    08/05/2020 @ 10:16am

    Awesome! As with most things, it's often the journey that's more enjoyable than arriving at the destination. Keep going, keep experimenting!

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    Ilga Jansons (@Ilga)
    08/07/2020 @ 4:18pm

    @JoerB Thanks....I'm playing now with skin tones...hats off to your spectacular pen drawings! Make me appreciate them even MORE!

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