#however I lost all my good liner pens on public transit so uh

[iguanodont]

I’ve decided to draw sea monsters for inktober

Unlike than the great serpents of the depths, the sea wymes bear no scales, and may have many hundreds of legs. Here are two well documented examples.

Fig I. The writhing bowel-wyrms; when swallowed by a whale, it grows and multiplies within the body to replace its bowels entirely. An unwelcome surprise for beach combers and whalers, though they quickly flee to sea when exposed, or perish when prevented from doing so.

Fig II. The Resplendent Ship-wyrm, so named for the glittering armor which clads its body. It is the bane of untold scores of sailors, by measure of its ability to gnaw through the hull of a ship in a matter of minutes, where it may crawls about on a quest for stores of fish and whale meat, fat, and oil. The carcasses of great armored leviathans are sometimes found with holes of striking resemblance in their hides; it can be assumed these wyrms prey on the flesh of these mightiest of sea monsters as they do the stores of unwary whalers.