Brook Trout Head Study 1

This is Pen and Ink and Wash head study of an Eastern Brook Trout (Salvelinus fontinalis). Native to the Eastern US, it is the state fish of 9 different States. In reality , the Brookie is not a trout, but a Char, related to Lake Trout, Bull trout, and Dolly Varden.

This Illustration was first drawn with rapidograph pens on Bristol board, fully stippled, with different values being achieved through different density of dots. Stippling is a greyscale version of pointilism, or divisionism, where colors are applied in dots but to the eye, blend together when observed from a distance. Color is added here with thin transparent washes of ink or resin based colors, applied in layers