Qi Baishi's shrimp painting also has five abdominal sections, but it stretches, bends, bends and bounces very powerfully. The calves under the abdomen are simplified to five. The head of the shrimp uses a mixture of dark and light ink to show that the head and chest of the shrimp are heavier and more transparent. The eyes of the shrimp are highlighted very long with thick ink horizontal dots, making them appear more vivid. On the shrimp's short whiskers, two long-armed pincers appear upright and powerful, soft yet hard, and the knots express the artistic conception of broken pen and intention. When Qi Baishi painted shrimps after he was ninety years old, he removed the shrimp whiskers.
Qi Baishi's shrimp paintings are highly refined, both realistic and beautiful, which are unprecedented in his predecessors. What he pursues is not physical resemblance, but spiritual resemblance.