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Zzynrath Pauldronpelt(that's right 2 Zs) is the reigning tide brawler champion of the Jetty. Her marine familiar is a cluster of gooseneck barnacles(Pollicipes polymerus)...bar...bar knuckles....bar- This is a continuation(sorta) of a character series I made last year where everyone has a marine familiar.

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I can't fix them but I can join their long list of victims!

I just finished Sorry We're Closed and HUUUUAAAAAHHHH!!!!! It's so good??? I love the designs for everything, all of it, the scrumptious.

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Some exploration on Piki's raptorials and their gloves

With Piki being a peacock mantis shrimp(Odontodactylus scyllarus) their signature move is the cavitation punch with their raptorial clubs. Here I did a little study with the real life O. scyllarus, simplified and translated the structure to fit into Piki's arm. The hands are extensions from the dactyl clubs and have high density of hydroxyapatite, making it great for dealing impact, but also means Piki's hands are a lot less sensitive than others'.

And do not let the power punch fool you, they're dogfish terrible at fighting, can't even dodge a hit to save their life(that's what the other two of the trio are here for.)

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Finding comfort(drawing silly art of them) in a time of hardship(arcane seaon 2)

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All of inktober 2024! With my MCC silly sea creatures

Actually finished a monthly art challenge this time wow I'm spitting up blood

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Inktober day 31: landmark

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Inktober day 30: violin

The traditional courtship dance of fiddler crabs involve wielding a claw carved from the skull of needlefish while adorned in round plates made from the operculum of gastropods. I'm not drawing an actual violin.

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Inktober day 29: navigator

A lot of marine organisms in real life can navigate through sensing magnetic fields, eels, salmon and turtles are some of the more studied examples. So here I had the idea of just having a messed up homunculus in your nautical compass pointing where you need to go like a tamagotchi pet(???

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Inktober day 28: jumbo

Cavi-claws are the mechanical enlarged claws the pistol shrimps developed to substitute their organic counterparts. And with them the limit is no longer bound by flesh, as seen with the "sea splitter" here.

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Inktober day 27: road

I don't care who the IRS sends I'm not drawing background. The fish is a moontail bullseye(Priacanthus hamrur)

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Inktober day 26: camera

This is meant to be a flashlight fish(Anomalops katoptron) but I went a little overboard with the design and now it's barely recognisable.

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Inktober day 25: scarecrow

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Inktober day 24: expedition

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Inktober day 23: rust

Mining workers around hydrothermal vents have to wear sponge hydraulic suits to adjust temperature, salinity and acidity. The living sponges wedged around the joints keep the water pumping and prevent the workers from going into toxic shock. As time wears on(get it, wear?) the suit accumilates sulfate crystals.

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Inktober day 22: camp

A lot of crustaceans form commensal relationships with sea cucumbers and use them as shelter(e.g. Zenopontonia rex) so here's a sea cucumber camp. I sort of combined traits from a lot of different sea cucumber species.

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Inktober day 21: rhinoceros

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Can't stop thinking about the fury's smile after she explodes us...

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I'm so glad we get so much more of her in the pristine cut she's always been my fav even back when all she does is grinding us to paste <3