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Day 4 of Weird Medieval October: Hellmouth

I figured that if I decided I wanted these sketches to look good I would not get around to finishing them so why not let them be expressive. This is the opening to Hell through the mouth of a dead predatory fish.

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Day 3 for Weird Medieval October: Hybrid snail

Snailsquiro...

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Day 2 for Weird Medieval October: the Fool

A man who willingly chose to become an onion. Still no scanner because I always choose to make these sketches late at night, and this time I had a block about drawing anyone with humanlike attributes. So here is someone who stands firmly in the middle ground.

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Day 1 for Weird Medieval October: Weird bat

It's late and I don't feel like taking my computer downstairs to scan it, so: here's weird bat. It came out looking like this because I was thinking about Persian cats.

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its from 2023 but im considering doing this…

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Animal sketches for my friend

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Fishuary 2024: Day 21 - Atlantic ocean

An Atlantic wolffish (Anarhichas lupus). I enjoy all the pictures of them in shipwrecks.

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Fishuary 2024: Day 20 - Indian ocean @fish-daily

An ocellated waspfish (Apistus carinatus). Branching out to draw fishes of different shapes!

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Fishuary 2024: Day 19 - Arctic ocean @fish-daily

The mysteriously named fish doctor (Gymnelus viridis)--from what I've found it is also known as a type of eelpout, a term which similarly explains nothing to me.

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Fishuary 2024: Day 18 - Pacific ocean @fish-daily

A spotted parrotfish (Cetoscarus ocellatus) in its terminal (male) phase.

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Fishuary 2024 - Day 17: Tropical fish @fish-daily

A black variant common molly (Poecilia sphenops). The images I referenced were those of a male, as you can see with the modified anal fin. As with other livebearers, it uses its gonopodium for internal fertilisation.

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Fishuary 2024: Day 16 - Freshwater fish @fish-daily

The tawilis (Sardinella tawilis) is a species endemic to Lake Taal in the Philippines, and the only entirely freshwater species of sardine. It came to be when the Taal volcano erupted and sealed off the lake from the sea in the 18th century, after which it adapted to a fully freshwater environment.

Though its life history interests me, it was very difficult to find images or footage of this little fish where it wasn't dead or dying. I hope that conservation efforts are succesful and that it continues to exist in spite all that stands against it.

Though it is a traditional food of the Philippines, in recent years it has been threatened by overfishing, pollution, predation by introduced species and of course, volcanic eruptions.

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Fishuary 2024: Day 15 - Aquarium fish @fish-daily

The red parrot cichlid is a type of fish that can only exist in an aquarium because it is a hybrid of different species of cichlids. Its existence is controversial, to say the least.

One of my first memories of using a computer was the interactive screensaver MOPy fish, which happened to feature a red parrot cichlid. It is so old that it doesn't run on current versions of Windows.

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Fishuary 2024: Day 14 - Fictional fish @fish-daily

Portrait of @bacchanalium's Cat as a Stingray

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Fishuary 2024: Day 13 - Big fish @fish-daily

I'm often trying to find obscure or lesser known examples but there was no way I'd choose anyone but a whale shark (Rhincodon typus) for the big fish prompt.

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Fishuary 2024: Day 12 - Small fish @fish-daily

How much smaller can you get than a guppy (Poecilia reticulata) fry? Today I found out it was named after one of it's discoverers' surnames. I never wondered why. I just thought that it made sense for an animal that looked like that.

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Fishuary 2024 - Day 11: Deep sea fish @fish-daily

The Antarctic toothfish (Dissostichus mawsoni) is a keystone species of the southern and Antarctic seas, currently at risk of overfishing. Its growth rate is slow--it can live for almost 50 years and matures at between 13 to 17 years, and even then does not reproduce every year.