Each semester at uni I've consistently come up with increasingly more and more elaborate ways of procrastinating from actually doing anything productive.
This semester's project has been drawing up vectors of tropical and marine fish.
Well, so far it's only been marine fish, because I've only completed one, and it's of a marine fish, but the idea is to branch out into all kinds of fish housable in aquaria.
Here's that aforementioned completed drawing, for anyone who is curious:
An Australian Harlequin Tusk Fish, my favourite (domesticated?) marine fish to date.
(drawn in Adobe Illustrator over about 6-7 hours with my mouse and wacom tablet)
The problem is that I, first of all, don't have that many weird and wonderful fish (lovely though they are), and secondly that I don't have mad photography skills (just average ones!).
I have seen some amazing photos of fish and aquariums here, however, and I was wondering if anyone would be willing to donate photos to my little art project. I would send you a PDF of the final product, if you would like, or something. Naturally I wouldn't be using the images to make any kind of profit (if only!), this is purely for my amusement. I might put them on my art website with the photo-taker's permission, though.
So if anyone is interested or willing to let me use your photos please let me know!
Thanks!
- Vectors are images which are drawn mathematically by your computer. That is, instead of a vector image being made up of a series of differently coloured pixels at a certain resolution, like a raster format image (JPG, GIF, etc), a vector is made up of lines which the computer reads as co-ordinates on a field, which are all relative to one another. Basically this means that a vector image can be scaled infinitely larger or smaller without any distortion or lack of quality, where raster type images are quite limited in how well they can be scaled. Vectors are just about my favourite type of computer-related randomness ever.
PDFs, by the way, are capable of maintaining the vector as a vector without rasterising it. Therefore a pdf of a vector image will remain infinitely scaleable, whereas a copy of a vector image that has been saved as a JPG, like the link above, is compressed and so loses some pictoral quality and also its infinite scaleability.
