some new work from South Africa

[rp]

Hi guy's hello here from South Africa

Here is a recent fish I finished. Its a WestCaost Steenbras (Lithognathus aureti)
This is the biggest fish of its species ever to be weighed on the Namibian coastline it weighed 32 Kg or 72 Lbs

This was the most difficult fish for me to paint as u can easily under or overpaint it.
this is a pic of an actual Westcoast Steenbras, this one I made a replica of was way bigger lol!



here is the finished fish

[Travis Jones]

Spot on work Rian!!!!!!

Glad to see your work as always!

[CrabCrazy]

nice job...sort of look like our black drum

[rp]

thanks guy's

good to work on something other than tigerfish.

[JE]

Nice work Rian, it is a pity there was not something in your picture to give a sense of the size of the fish, at 72lbs it must have been quite big !
Salt water fish are something I intend to have a go at this summer, although a lot of UK species are "boring" we do have a few colorful ones to try.
John

[rp]

thanks man here are some pics to give u an idea of size my dad is 6'