Mermay! I absolutely love these gals; this is probably one of, if not my favorite drawing(s) I've done so far. Also the first work with my lil trademark on it, so there's that! I also tried incorporating some more niche facts! Some of which include:
1--Seldom seen feeding tentacles repurposed into a halo
2--Salmon go crazy to mate, thus her hat/hair evokes a male salmon doing a fertilization and whatnot
3--Sea Squirts like her digest their own organs, including brain! So her head, while also filter-feeding, is literally empty (so the bubbles)
4--Bobbit Worms are actually iridescent!
5--Cookie Cutter Sharks can and have bite solid chunks out of military-grade nuclear submarines
6--These animals are dried out and mutilated to make Jenny Hanivers, supposed "real" demons
7--Betta fish mating waltzes r beautiful
8--This one is actually 3 friends in one! The clownfish, the tongue-eating isopod, and an anemone (the hat/hair)!
9--Pistol Shrimp's snaps create a little air bubble that reaches temperatures hotter than the surface of the sun (but only for an incredibly tiny fraction of a second)
13--A Sea Monkey! She might be my favorite, honestly. She's based on the actual shrimp's anatomy, plus what sea monkeys were advertised to look like. She's a wildlife photographer, because sea MONKEY (duh) but also because the only real "tricks" you could teach them were to follow light. So she's a Flash Photographer! Also seen, another Sea Monkey, a Lionfish, and an Elephantfish
14--A Transient Orca, which are known to beach themselves to find prey. Also they kill other whales
17--Whale lice! While most species of whale have 1 unique species of lice, Sperm Whales actually have 3! 1 is a generalist, but the other 2 only live on Boys or Girls, respectively. Thus, the specific boy/girl wedding outfits. Lesbians :)
18--Jellyfish life cycles are weird. They start as a Planula (in the picture frame), settle down and become anemone-like things that actually produce several clones of themselves! And the immortal jellyfish can just go back to this stage whenever! Pretty neat stuff.
19--The Sturddlefish, an accidental hybrid created when scientists were breeding Sturgeon and Paddlefish in an attempt to make cheaper caviar. They didn't expect any of the eggs to be viable!
20--The Sludge Worm. In a group of Boogie Worms, these guys wiggle around a bunch to breathe, so they look like they're boogying! Also, these worms specifically carry a disease that affects fish by making their skin go black, bending their spines, and making them swim erratically (so kind of like a forced flash-mob, right?)
22--All cephalopods have donut-shaped brains!
25--A whale fall
26--Starring another echinoderm friend, a Sea Pig. Also, not-so-known fact, but all sand dollars are actually hairy when alive! Also, some sand dollars on Africa's Coasts are actively re-evolving bilateral symmetry! Crazy, yeah?
27--An actual sea cucumber, btw
30--Look up penis fencing. It's wild
31--A yeti crab! I'm funny
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