Beautiful Oops

When I looked at my ink marks I thought of seahorses because of the long ink line but because of the other ink spots I had to figure out the right pose for the seahorse so it didn't look weird. Which was a big struggle but I eventually figured it out and decided to make the long line of ink into seaweed and had the seahorse wrap around it like its anchoring itself. I also didn't want the seahorse to be isolated since there was a lot of blank space around the seaweed so I added in a few baby seahorses to make it look like it's following its mother or father in the blank spaces.

For my beautiful oops I used a fine tip marker, watercolors and prisma colored pencils for detailing and shading.

For my project I had to experiment with drawing smaller figures so I could get the baby seahorses to look good. I don't like drawing small things because I have a harder time getting the detail into them so I usually work on art projects that are a larger scale like 12x24 paper. Due to this I practiced drawing a bunch of little baby seahorses on a different piece of paper from reference photos from the internet until I felt confident enough to do the real thing on my art project.