It's rare that I get to see one of my own pictures "for the first time". But I'd forgotten all about having drawn this, until I was going through a box of old papers. I discovered this printed in an issue of an arts and literature magazine done at my former college. It's nice, usually I spend so much time hunched over the picture I don't get a chance to really LOOK at it with fresh eyes.
This particular picture, in addition to being one of my few 'fish' pictures that doesn't feature menacing armored monsters from the late Devonian, is unusual in that at least one of the butterflyfish was drawn from life. The only thing I remember about this picture - and I had to stare at it for awhile to remember this much - is that one of each species of fish in the picture is "right" and the rest are copied from them. But I can't figure out what I used for a source, whether it was an aquarium in someone's office, or a photograph, or what. I don't remember having access to an aquarium in 1996.
Aquarium enthusiasts: spot the mistake.
I don't have the original, and what's in the magazine isn't high enough quality to make prints from.
Say, while I have your attention: do any IUPUC alumni reading this happen to remember who ended up with the original?
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