Below are 10 of my favorite sketches from my first year participating in Inktober – a Fall event, occuring in October, to promote ink only illustrations. I have, unsurprisingly, decided to try my hand at these daily sketches and respond to each prompt with a fishy creation!

Day 24 of Inktober 2018: #Chop. Carnegiella strigata, the marbled hatchetfish. MC Gilbert 2018

Day 8 of #Inktober: #Star. Pterophylum scalare, angelfish. MC Gilbert 2018

#Inktober2018 Day 4: Spell. Phenotypic plasticity in fishes (or fish, since these are the same species of cichlid!). MC Gilbert 2018

Day 17 of #Inktober: Swollen. Dichotomyctere ocellatus, a figure eight puffer. MC Gilbert 2018

Inktober 2018: #Drooling. If a white crappie could drool… MC Gilbert 2018

Day 15 of #Inktober: Weak. Bracygobius kabliensis, a bumblebee goby. MC Gilbert 2018

Day 16 of #Inktober: Angular. Eurypharynx pelecanoides, a female gulper eel. MC Gilbert 2018

Day 13 of #Inktober: Guarded. Gasterosteus aculeatus, threespine stickleback. MC Gilbert 2018

#Inktober2018 Day 5: Chicken. The roosterfish Nematistius pectoralis. MC Gilbert 2018

Centriscopus humerosus, the banded bellowsfish. #SundayFishSketch #Inktober2018 MC Gilbert 2018