CRAPPIE ON!!! -- ANOTHER DRAWING BY SPECIAL K

As many of you already know... I have been dabbling with art or pencil drawing for a couple of years now since retirement. Lately, I have been attempting to get more involved with action type depictions of crappie and other fish. Among the biggest challenges, however, in trying to achieve this is not only the posturing of the fish, but also any action such as splashing and/or movement of the water.

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In this particular drawing, I attempted to show both a surface and subsurface view of a black crappie being brought to the surface of the water -- by you, the greatest crappie fisherman of all time -- and fighting hard just prior to being boated or spitting the hook -- whichever you prefer as an outcome. This drawing by far took more time than any I have done yet, as I am trying to slow things down a bit to try to get better depth, detail and realism in my drawings.

Please take a moment to let me know what you think. You guys and gals are my best critics. :ThumbsUp :ThumbsUp :ThumbsUp

Thank You & May God Bless You & Yours
Wayne aka Special K

Wow! Looks like the new world record Black Crappie. Fantastic!

That looks great!

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Looks good but I’d darken the features of the crappie to stand out more.

That is an awesome picture Wayne. I'm going to send you a PM


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Great job!

Looks very good, You have a great talent.

That is totally awesome! The water splashing above the fish's back looks completely real. The details of the fish (head,eye, mouth, fins,etc.) are spot on. Almost like a computer touched up photo. Your best work yet IMO!
Keep up the good work.

The above water, splash is so good it looks like a photo. The fish looks good but I think drawing individual scales on it would make it really look great. I'm sure that would take a lot of time to do but I think it would be worth it in the long run. It looks great as it is, I don't want mean to sound critical.

Very outstanding real life picture!

Fine work. If that picture were in color, I'd think is was a photo. Your talent is obvious. Congratulations.

Jim

everything is spot in except the way the hook is in the mouth and the line to the jig, but thats getting picky, real nice work

That is really nice. Strong work!

Nice!

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Very nice, from looking at the trees in the background I think I know that spot lol.


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Thats an amazing drawing! So realistic. Also I really like the moment you chose to capture. Keep up the great work!!!


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Looks fantastic

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This is a great looking drawing Wayne. We will have to compare it to real life soon.

Brother you have a great talent!

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Originally Posted by Chuck Haley

Wow! Looks like the new world record Black Crappie. Fantastic!

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Originally Posted by fishfinder8

That looks great!

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Originally Posted by Jig Puller

That is an awesome picture Wayne. I'm going to send you a PM

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Originally Posted by Two Dog

Great job!

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Originally Posted by triadcrappie

Looks very good, You have a great talent.

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Originally Posted by TerryD

That is totally awesome! The water splashing above the fish's back looks completely real. The details of the fish (head,eye, mouth, fins,etc.) are spot on. Almost like a computer touched up photo. Your best work yet IMO! Keep up the good work.

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Originally Posted by Slabprowler

Very outstanding real life picture!

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Appreciate the support and the kind words about the drawing. Hearing your feedback and seeing your enjoyment of the artwork means a great deal to me.

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Originally Posted by Yak Fish

Fine work. If that picture were in color, I'd think is was a photo. Your talent is obvious. Congratulations. Jim

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Originally Posted by kelbro

That is really nice. Strong work!

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Originally Posted by Jdm1971

Nice!

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[QUOTE=Chadillac;3721460]Thats an amazing drawing! So realistic. Also I really like the moment you chose to capture. Keep up the great work!!! [QUOTE]

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Originally Posted by Seekbigger

Looks fantastic

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Originally Posted by SEA DANCER

This is a great looking drawing Wayne. We will have to compare it to real life soon.

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Originally Posted by Jerry Bryant

Brother you have a great talent!

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Appreciate the support and the kind words about the drawing. Hearing your feedback and seeing your enjoyment of the artwork means a great deal to me.

Keep it up. Put it in a book and put the book on the market. I would buy one.

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Originally Posted by Lloakley930

Looks good but I’d darken the features of the crappie to stand out more.

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I appreciate the constructive comment about darkening the features of the crappie to stand out more. I actually lose a whole lot of detail and contrast whenever I take the digital picture with my camera and prolly some more when I upload the photos to my editing software. I try to adjust everything to look right... but any adjustment in one area seems to take away from other areas.

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Originally Posted by Jerry Bryant

Keep it up. Put it in a book and put the book on the market. I would buy one.

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I've had so much call for this stuff that I'm actually doing these drawings to offer as wall art (frameable canvas and posters) to sell on my website when I get it back up and running.

Good

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Originally Posted by Special K

I appreciate the constructive comment about darkening the features of the crappie to stand out more. I actually lose a whole lot of detail and contrast whenever I take the digital picture with my camera and prolly some more when I upload the photos to my editing software. I try to adjust everything to look right... but any adjustment in one area seems to take away from other areas.

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What program are you using?

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Originally Posted by Yak Fish

Fine work. If that picture were in color, I'd think is was a photo. Your talent is obvious. Congratulations. Jim

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I haven't had much good luck doing these in color. When I take digital photos of the piece and upload it to the computer I always get distorted and transparent looking colors that really look pretty awful.
I do hope to find a more professional source for handling uploads and printing that better accommodate color artwork. I am also experimenting with better camera and lighting equipment.

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Originally Posted by gobbler

everything is spot in except the way the hook is in the mouth and the line to the jig, but thats getting picky, real nice work

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Thanks for your constructive comments on the drawing gobbler. I agree that I did not show the tie eye on the jig... but intentionally did not because I was showing a slight rotation of the jig to the inside. The hook appears to have "pixelized" some when the drawing was photographed and uploaded... and I'm not really sure why it did but I don't like it either.

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Originally Posted by SuperDave336

What program are you using?

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I have always liked Paint, Microsoft Publisher and Paint.net. I've tried some of the more complicated programs... but found I didn't have sense enough to learn them.

Oh, can’t help you there. Thought if using photoshop I could teach you what you needed. Keep up the good work.

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Originally Posted by SuperDave336

Oh, can’t help you there. Thought if using photoshop I could teach you what you needed. Keep up the good work.

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I appreciate it brother... but I believe most of my problems with color and contrast are camera related. I have an awesome digital camera, but finding the exact settings and lighting needed for taking photos of artwork (especially color artwork) has been somewhat elusive and aggravating to me. Hopefully I will get it right sometime pretty soon Lord willing.

That's an awesome drawing. I think it should be put on the Crappie.com shirts. I for one would buy it and wear it often.

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Originally Posted by FisherFore

That's an awesome drawing. I think it should be put on the Crappie.com shirts. I for one would buy it and wear it often.

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Appreciate the kind words and the comments brother. Actually, I will be offering this design and many others very soon... when I get my website back up and running. The difference this time is... I will be offering this one and many other designs on several different shirts and as wall art too for the man cave. I would hope many from CDC will be checkin' it out.

That's about as sweet as it gets. Can't wait to see what happens when you throw some color in it. I have two of your shirts and two sweatshirts already and they still look great.

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Originally Posted by jack

That's about as sweet as it gets. Can't wait to see what happens when you throw some color in it. I have two of your shirts and two sweatshirts already and they still look great.

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Thanks for the kind words and for your previous business jack. I'm glad to hear that the products you purchased are all holding up well for you. If you think the products were good before... you haven't seen anything compared to how my offerings will be when I get the site back up and running, hopefully real soon. I have been working non-stop for months now developing new artwork for what I think will be an awesome upgrade to the US 1 Printable Stuff product line.