Maya AkazawaMay 20, 20211 min readField Journal Backgrounds For the past week I have been unpacking and moving around different leps to make available some Riker boxes for specie-specific displays....
Maya AkazawaMay 10, 20211 min readBeginnings of a Jaguar For the past few days I have been drawing a Jaguar for Cloudbridge Nature Reserve. I have yet to finish the fine details of the jaguar...
Maya AkazawaMay 8, 20211 min readCloudbridge Illustrations For a part of my senior project I am working with Cloudbridge Nature Reserve drawing local animals found at Cerro Chirripo. So far I have...
Maya AkazawaMay 3, 20211 min readBlacknose Dace and Tessellated Darter Funnily enough, most of my fish seem to have cream-yellow swaths of color on them. From my original draft of the Tessellated Darter I...
Maya AkazawaMay 1, 20211 min readA Longnose Dace, Stonefly, a Bluntnose Minnow and a musselThe past two days I have drawn four critters. All of the critters had at least one color from the NBNC color Palette.
Maya AkazawaApr 29, 20211 min readNorthern Clearwater CrayfishToday I worked on refining the virile crayfish and drawing the Northern Clearwater Crayfish for the main tank. I have noticed that the...
Maya AkazawaApr 29, 20211 min readA Hellgrammite and Crayfish Yesterday I finished coloring in and outlining my Hellgrammite drawing. When I was coloring in the crayfish and beginning to outline it I...
Maya AkazawaApr 27, 20211 min readApril 27: Learning Krita Today I worked on matching the colors from my source image for the minnow to colors to the digital range of colors offered on Krita. My...
Maya AkazawaApr 26, 20211 min readFirst Time Using Krita Today was pretty challenging for me as I am unfamiliar with digital art. I have never used Krita before so I found that getting used to...
Maya AkazawaApr 23, 20211 min readWaiting to be digitized These are my final outlines of the species drawn on paper soon to be scanned onto my computer where they will become colorful aquatic...
Maya AkazawaApr 23, 20211 min readConfluence and Headwaters Tank Sketches For the Headwaters tank I made sure to point out the differences that I noticed between the Longnose Dace and the Blacknose Dace. They...
Maya AkazawaApr 22, 20211 min readPreliminary Sketches for the Main Tank species For the past two days, I have been working on sketching and observing identifying features for the species in the main tank. My sketches...