Aug 13th, 2012 by Aldouspi

I have recently been commissioned by an interior design consultancy from Great Britain (Avid Design) to make a series of wildlife drawings. I was to create five pencil drawings featuring a trout, a stag, a horse, a wild goose and a pheasant. Avid Design needed high resolution images of the animals to reproduce them on a glass film for a window at Exmoor White Horse Inn – a hotel situated in a picturesque area of South West England offering some wildlife-related activities such as safari, horse riding and the deer rutting season.

I will dedicate a blog post to each particular drawing created within this Avid Design project. This post features a trout which is a fish taking a special place in every fisherman’s heart.

Trout drawing for Exmoor White Horse Inn

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Igor Lukyanov – Graphic Artist | Illustrator | Portraitist

A Few Thoughts on Trout

Though commonly considered a trout, the brook trout is actually one of the chars, which in North America also include the lake trout, bull trout, Dolly Varden, and the Arctic char. Nonetheless, like allk “trouts,” the brook trout is good eating. But, of course, it is the Rainbow trout that appears to be most popular in Western cuisine including both the wild-caught and farmed fish.

Trout are an important food source for humans and wildlife including brown bears, and birds of prey such as eagles, and other animals. As a group, trout are somewhat bony with small flexible bones, but the flesh is tasty.

Young trout are referred to as troutlet, troutling or fry and sometimes are called sac fry or alevin. And because of their popularity, trout are often raised on fish farms and planted into heavily fished waters, to offset the effects of over fishing.

Golden rainbow trout are predominantly yellowish, lacking the typical green field and black spots but retaining the diffuse red stripe.

Rainbow trout are predators with a varied diet and will eat nearly anything they can capture.ON the other side of the rod, rainbows are a popular game fish for fly fishers. Silver spinner blades are also known to excite rainbows, lake trout, cutthroats and brookies while brown, golden and bull trout often favor gold blades.

Cutthroat trout are native to western North America and have evolved through geographic isolation into 14 subspecies, each native to a different major drainage basin.

Brown trout have been widely introduced into suitable environments around the world, including North and South America, Australia, Asia, and South and East Africa. They have established self-sustaining, wild populations in many of the introduced countries. Brown trout have had serious negative impacts on upland native fish species in some of the countries where they have been introduced, this is particularly true in Australia.

Brook trout have a diverse diet that includes larval, pupal, and adult forms of aquatic insects (typically caddisflies, stoneflies, mayflies and aquatic dipterans), and adult forms of terrestrial insects (typically ants, beetles, grasshoppers and crickets) that fall into the water, crustaceans, frogs and other amphibians, molluscs, smaller fish, invertebrates, and even small aquatic mammals such as voles.

Trout have fins entirely without spines, and all of them have a small adipose fin along the back, near the tail. And trout have a well-developed sense of smell.

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Custom Bookmarks by Igor Lukyanov

Jun 13th, 2012 by Aldouspi

Custom Bookmarks by Igor Lukyanov

There was a woman from the United States named Kat who asked me to create custom bookmarks for her to use them for her new blog promotion while attending a book convention. Kat is crazy about books and she shares her passion for books on her blog called The Book Tart. Kat wanted two customized bookmarks featuring a reading woman. The woman on the drawing was supposed to look like Kat and be seductive to support her motto – “Reading is Sexy”. Well, you have to go an extra mile to revert people back to reading books today and if you are an attractive woman it is easier to do that. I also love those wise phrases she wanted to place on the bookmarks: “Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy books, and that’s kind of the same thing” and “I have more books than clothes or shoes – combined”.

So I am writing this post to show you how those custom bookmarks look like. The drawings were created on the basis of reference photos and descriptions provided by Kat (including her desire to add some vintage girl vibe to the drawings). These bookmarks are another example of highly customized artworks I can create for personal and business purposes. I can handle the most advanced customization requests as there is nothing that can be more customized than illustrations featuring characters with the portrait similarity to any person. If you are for the fist time on my blog, please, feel free to check some portraits created by me to see what I can offer when highly customized art is needed.

Igor Lukyanov – Graphic Artist | Illustrator | Portraitist

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