Arowana pics

[PeteJ]

Hi well i have looked! but i cant quite find what im looking for!
I need a picture of an arowana to use as reference as im designing a watermark for my C.V.
http://www.oxtongue.co.uk/petej/web/sketch/arowana.jpg

something similar to this pose would be good i need something quite long top>bottom as the watermark will be left aligned.

i can flip/rotate most of the images to something close to what i need but as im going to be doing it in illustrator by hand i wanted some better reference!

so if anybody has any photo's or knows where i can find some of an arowana in a similar pose to this please let me know!
its fairly urgent as i want to get it done asap. The pics dont need to be hi-res but im not going to complain if they are.

hope you can help out a little!

p.s dont mind if its a jardini/gold/red etc!

[rallysman]

here is the closest I have, but I might be able to get some more.
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/gallery//watermark.php?file=13472&size=1
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/gallery//watermark.php?file=13399&size=1

[drgnfly829]

ooohhh ahhh

[PeteJ]

ahh perfect! if you could ad a few more, or if anyone else can that would be fantastic!
cheers! all i have to do now is find out why illustrato crashes!

[wizzin]

why illustrator? Are you using a wacom? I use photoshop for freehand stuff. Brush options etc... What version of illustrator do you have?

[PeteJ]

was planning on using vector art. i only just managed to get working version of PS today. and yeah i'll be using a wacom... but not with illustrator heh.

need the text tools illustrator has, also might be needing indesign also.

er yeah i would use PS for freehand sketching (hence the sketch i put up) but in this instance i want a really clean and crisp image, gives me chance to brush up on illustrator skills too.
i just dont "do" clean sketches.

er got the entire CS2 suite installed, so version.. 12 illustrator i think and 9 PS i dunno seems to work usually buggy as heck

[StiffMeister]

that first drawing is awesome!!

[wizzin]

I got ya. So you're doing a crisp stylistic version for the watermark. Then illustrator is the way to go. So are you going to "trace" the picture? Post the finals. That will be cool.