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It is a mix of the two. I draw the lines of the fish, the outline of the fins, the eyes, the details, everything like that with gel pen. Then, I let it dry and break out the water colors. Everything gets a base, then the scales get different colors and the fins get stripes too to give a bit more depth. On the red one I tried to use acrylic to add the shimmer of the fins, but it did not work