A portrait of a dear friend.
Image ID: A dark skinned boy with bright red hair playing a bone flute. He wears a golden circlet with a braid pattern and matching gold bracelets. He has a green shirt with gold stitching on the sleeve ends and the collar. The stitches make x’s. A goldfinch covers his eyes. Two more fly around him. A full moon casts purple light in the background. A scattering of stars surround the moon. The sky transitions to purple at the top of the canvas to gold at the bottom.
Another red riding hood card, this time the ace. Featuring murder, a cornerstone of any good fairy tale. My, what big hands she has.
A little watercolor of my oc, Damselfly (pronouns it/its for now). They're a slug that builds its own armor from toxic metal gases like volcano snails. Did I think about the biology of this too much? Yes
Made a little portrait of a sea slug lady complete with the head antennae and face sensory tentacles. I think we sometimes forget they're voracious predators so I gave her sharp teeth.
My boyfriend requested some sea slug sketches; they turned out so good I thought I’d share them with y’all. Behold the magnificent, blushing sea bunnies.
Image Id: A small, oval, white sea slug with brown spikes and two feathery brown antennae. He is outlined in silver on top and dark gray on bottom. There are small blush marks on his cheeks. The top background is a simple blue, the bottom background is a purple to blue gradient.
A deep sea friend: the blob sculpin. These are also known as "blobfish," which won the price for world's ugliest animal a few years back. Why doesn't it look like the blobfish you've seen on the internet? With bulbous noses and frowning lips and pink flesh? Those blobfish were dead and photographed after removing them from their seabed homes (1,600 to 9,200 ft deep) in the pacific. Reeling them up causes their bodies to rapidly expand because of the pressure change, which causes them to become pink and bloated. This blob sculpin rests peacefully on the ocean floor, staring up at the light of a submarine that illuminates it. Soon, it will swim off into the dark, hunting small crustaceans.
18 and ready to scream. Meet Chel, the lead singer and guitarist of Flame Blade, Kira and Midas's band. She is sooooo fun to draw.
Yay!!!!!!!!!! So happy that you got out your paints a made a snail!!! Always need more snail paintings in the world!!!! What a cutie!!! What lovely spots!!
About 70 days ago I commented on @astro-axolotl 's watercolour snail saying I wish I could get the watercolours out and paint a snail myself. I haven't painted in months. I haven't posted art here in maybe a year. I haven't painted a snail ever.
Here's my snail
"Howdy, partner. Don't suppose you seen any cows around these parts? Mine seem to have wandered off. Mind helping me find em? Your eyes be mighty useful, 'specially cause I don't have any!"
Will you help him find his cows?
Gotta protect the palisman
Art blog of Ari Coester. He/him. Mid 20s. I post comic concept art, cute animal watercolor, and surrealist illustration. My favorite things to draw are animals and monsters.
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