Bioluminescent catcher-tongues of Europa By MickMcDee Watch

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Wow, this one tooked me quite too long. Not the drawing, but the concept! I was planning some creatures for a possible ecosystem on Titan, but all my sketches looked like crippled starfishs, slugs and bubble-blob-thingys. Then I tried to let the creatures look more like fishs, and well, they started to look exactly like fishs. Convergent evolution and a hydrodynamic body make sence in a liquid habitat, but if you're searching for some innovative designs it can make you see red. Finally I said, OK lets make some "bizarre miniature plankton devourers" and the result where these fellas. All in all it tooked me over 2 weeks. TWO WEEKS!!!

I was really satisfied with the black and white groundwork and thought: "Hey, they live on Titan . . . in a dark, oil-like sea. There is no need for colours!" A few minutes later I thought: "F*** it! I want some colours!" The final result (in my mind) did not longer fit Titan, but I liked it anyway. So I let them live underneath the ice of Europa, catching microparticles or smaller catcher-tongues or whatever is attracted by their glooming lights. Maybe the colours are still a bit over-the-top . . .



Hope you like, I had my fun!



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IMAGE DETAILS Image size 3408x2432px 4.06 MB Make Canon Model MG5100 series Date Taken Mar 26, 2016, 10:52:15 AM Show More

Published : Mar 26, 2016