Showing posts with label saltwater. Show all posts
Showing posts with label saltwater. Show all posts

Monday, June 27, 2022

Odd art, fleshing out combinations, and dinosaur sharks

 Odd art, fleshing out combinations, and dinosaur sharks

Redid my older drawing of the Megalodon, especially considering it is no longer considered just a large great white shark.  Megalodons now have their own family which means 'megateeth'. As a result I redrew the monster shark, taking a guess at coloration, and guessing a few other details, given teeth and latest research. That reseign shows here:

https://www.spoonflower.com/en/fabric/13246411-megalodon-v22-by-combatfish

and here

https://www.cafepress.com/clownfishbutton/11854772

among other spots.

I also drew up an ancient freshwater shark, a true river monster of the distant past, the Xenacanthus. This beast was only around 4 feet or so, but had a giant spike on its head, and prowled through the Devonian to Triassic times.  I again took some liberty with coloration, guessing that a swamp or river shark would likely be colored much like a bowfin or gar. 

https://www.cafepress.com/clownfishbutton/17327440

https://www.spoonflower.com/en/fabric/13234248-xenacanthus-ancient-freshwater-shark-by-combatfish

then made some interesting combo patterns for the paleontologist or dino lover at home:

https://www.spoonflower.com/en/fabric/13311629-10-extinct-sea-monsters-scatter-4in-on-cyan-by-combatfish

the added several more snappers and the like, including Emperor snappers (juvenille):

https://www.cafepress.com/combatfishingdeepseafishesshop/17333061


Then a combo like so:

https://www.designbyhumans.com/shop/t-shirt/men/3-indo-pacific-snappers/1843851/ 


note that I also put all my combat-fishing gear on the design by humans site also:

https://www.designbyhumans.com/shop/CombatFish/

Enjoy,

Bryce


Friday, April 22, 2022

More odd designs

 Added a few odd designs, including a bluespotted sunfish in cafepress, and various seemless designs with sharks chasing sea lions, lipleodon after icthyosaurs, more trout designs, and more saltwater fish designs.

tight lines,

Bryce

Thursday, October 22, 2020

Fishes and Fishes

 Have been pretty busy with my day job, but I have also been drawing many patterns and fishes.

Everything pops up here (my Master Site) and on my Spoonflower Site.

First, I answered several requests in spoonflower for peacock bass, marlin and tuna patterns.  All posted on spoonflower.

Then I add some odd abstract patterns of loops and tuna and trevally, the kind that look good on shirts, curtains, and sheets. 

As far as new fish, I have been looking for the interesting and fishes that I have yet to draw so drew up:

Lookdowns, which have an interesting profile, and like to hang around reefs, bridges, and piers. A jack family fish.

Kob, which are huge saltwater gamefish of bays and estuaries from South Africa related to White Sea Bass, WeakfishBlackspot Croaker, and Spotted Seatrout.

Scrawled Butterflyfish, which are pretty reef fish just like the other butterflyfish.

Leaping Bonito, a colorful fast saltwater fish between tuna and mackerel, found around Australia.








Saturday, March 28, 2020

More odd fishes and cool stuff


Deep sea fish are often 'red' fish, in that they have red, orange, and purple coloration, since red is the first color to get stopped by water...at depth these fish are close to black, but on the surface or in the shallows a cool array of sunset colors. 

First I added two Cardinal fish...popular aquarium fish all over. 
The  Banggai cardinalfish is a popular aquarium fish but int he wild has a very limited range, on reefs around the Banggai Islands in Indonesia.  It is not red, but just interesting in general.
A relative is more orange, the Pajama or Spotted Cardinalfish (fyi, they don't look like the bird or the churchman, wonder if they are important in something?), which  has some orange on the fins.

A redder fish family is the Squirrelfish (big eyes = squirrel-like maybe?), which have scales and stripes, and are again a popular saltwater reef fish family.  Drew two common types: Squirrelfish of the Atlantic, and the Hawaiian Squirrelfish of the Pacific.  The Hawaiian model, like the Hawaiian shirt is a bit more colorful.

I also added the deep water Queen Snapper, a purplish-reddish-Atlantic fish caught in water from a few hundred to thousand feet deep.

The same fishes are on patterns and decor also at my Spoonflower site (or soon will be).

Tight lines, calm seas, and BE SAFE!

Bryce L. Meyer