@chromarrays gets inspiration! (Your hair was a good challenge to try and draw)
@tera-artt gets @paddy-jam
@miwachan2 gets an oddly shaped present
@glittergummy gets... well it was gonna be cake but the yeep decided otherwise
@fairy-orbitars gets sea slugs!
@pinkspaghetti-tblr gets a banjo plush extra smol
@bakinbread gets longer limbs
@askbananapie gets a strawberry!
I chose these at random but I just wanna say merry holidays everyone, 2023 wasn't the best year for a lot of us but the best we can do is keep on trekking, we work smart, do what you can, and keep it up for 2024! Merry Christmas everybody
I swear, not only was this page a beast, I think it's possibly the prettiest page I've done so far :o Upside, I'll be able to go back to the weekly schedule instead of the nightmare biweekly schedule from this holiday season.
New Rivulet design <3
Honestly Riv has always been a struggle for me because it feels distinctly like it should be hairless (moreso than any other slugcat to me) but the gills always look like clown hair to me when I draw it 😭
And I'm not a fan of that tbh
But I just gave up and made Ruffles extra frilly and fluffy.. Inspired by a sea slug (sea rabbit! to be specific) and those look vaguely furry so I can cope <3
Here are the five winners of Huion's halloween art contest! I really wanted to thank Huion for this interesting opportunity, it would be the first art contest I organize in my life, I hope I did everything correctly.
It was very difficult to choose just 5 winners among the more than 70 participants with a lot of amazing art! Thank you so much to everyone who participated, I hope you had fun!✨
🏆✨The Winners✨
⭐First Place - Maru.nascimento
- I sure love the little dollhouse feeling this art evokes in me! I loved playing with stuff like that when I was a kid and I still love it so much today. I like how all the art conveys the idea of a party between friends on a cozy Halloween night, lit by maybe a television broadcasting some popular spooky movie! I also love everything about the colors!
⭐Second Place - Levi.animarts
- You created amazing characters in all fifteen of this year's Sharktober themes and brought them ALL to Requino's little house! This is for sure the best Halloween shark party little Requino could have! I love your art style and hope to one day be in the art direction of an amazing indie game!
⭐Third Place - Akaizerarts
- You came alone to brighten up Requino's party, but you were apparently the only one who opened the door to his house, that's very polite! This detail caught my attention and I loved the diving suit! You were very creative!
⭐Fourth Place - Snakeheadfrita
- This is so adorable! I was really looking forward to having a participant do something handmade and you impressed me with the amazing details and colors of your needlefelt creation! And I recognize how much work needlefelting can be, you are very talented!
⭐Fifth Place - @its-a-beautful-day
- This was the first craft work that appeared to me and I consider it very special, I really love the rustic feeling it conveys, like a halloween decoration made with a lot of passion and dedication, you have an incredible talent with your hands! I fell in love with the chubby clown fish!
I thought of making honorable mentions for another five works that caught my attention!
❤️First Mention - Chrysapixie
- Blue, purple and pink are colors that I have a deep passion for, so your artwork sure fascinated me, you have a great talent with colors! I also loved the design of your OC!
❤️Second Mention - Pipkinbee
- You were the only one who used 3D art and you did it with great talent! I was inspired by your render and was admiring the details for hours! You reproduced Requino's little house with great mastery!
❤️Third Mention - Sev.the.cat
- I love the pop art feeling your artwork conveys to me! Its colors are very beautiful and its design is very elegant! Your art conjured up the idea of a beautiful party invitation card!
❤️Fourth Mention - Ruri_chiki
- I can't explain it, but I fell in love with your OC's friendly interaction with Requino! So simple and so kind! Your art has given me so much joy!
❤️Fifth Mention - @idessa
- This art was someone from Tumblr known as @Idessa, I love the children's book art feeling their art evokes and I love the little sea slug design!
One additional mention I wanted to make, especially on tumblr, is from the amazing music video by @ravenmoodle ❤️🎶
https://youtu.be/141BktDFkmE
That's it, I really was full of doubts about which ones I would choose, but it all came from my heart, I hope you all had fun and that the tablets benefit your artistic talents!🎨✨
followed you because when you reblogged my bad communication post i loved your url !! do u have any nudibranch propaganda to share?
Hell yea i do!! This got a little long :)
These funky little dudes have the coolest morphology, something theyre well known for. They can be pretty tiny (0.4 cm) or surprisingly large (60 cm) and generally live in the tropics, though there are certainly a wide variety that live in cooler ocean water as well. Some of the more well known species are very eye catching, like the Jorunna Parva (Bunny slug) or Glaucus Atlanticus
Some of them look like funky leaves and some of them look like slugs we see on the surface too! (Did you know licking banana slugs that you find on land makes your tongue go numb? 10/10 not recommended but i was a dumb kid)
They also come in a goth or clown variant for those that are looking to fit a certain aesthetic :)
Theres two kinds of nudibranchs. Dorids, which breathe from a central plume of gills above their ass, and Aeolids, which breathe from a collection of spiky protrusions called cerata. There are a couple more distinguishing features relating to their digestive tracts and mantles (or lack thereof), but this is the easiest way to tell them apart in my opinion!
Theyre also carnivorous! These guys will eat a wide variety of stuff, including sponges, coral, barnacles, anemones, and even other nudibranchs and their eggs.
There are a couple species that have some pretty cool diets, like the Glaucus Atlantica, which preys on the portugese man of war and other siphonophores. It can eat the man of war whole if theyre small enough, but will also just eat the tentacles if theyre too big. Glaucus will then push the stinging nematocysts (the bits that hurt) from its insides to its outsides and use them as self defence!
There are also sea slugs, like the Costasiella Kuroshimae (technically not a nudibranch yada yada yada) that eat algae they then use to photosynthesize!
These funky little creatures are also hermaphroditic! Like a lot of animals, they use mating dances to attract a partner. Thats not whats cool about their reproduction though. When the time comes to lay their eggs, they do so in the coolest ribbon-like structures.
Mostly though, i just love how different all these little guys are. Personally, my fav nudi is from the ocean near where i live!
Anyways, that was rlly long. thanks if u ended up reading and defs look into these little weirdos on ur own!! (references? idk her :P but actually i dont remember where i learned most of this, though some supplemental info and pics w out credits from wikipedia!)
Here's some sea slugs I've spotted over the years:
Melibe leonina The Lion’s Mane Nudibranch by JA Fields, Background credit to NASA, ESA and Allison Loll/Jeff Hester (Arizona State University). Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin (ESA/Hubble).
Tritonia sp.
Onchidoris bilamellata, the barnacle-eating sea slug
Alias/titles: Aldia Entrati (deadname), big guy, old fart, Doc, Doctor, The Good Doctor, General, Master, Enlightened One, Midnight Sun, Slayer of Lord Demogorgon
Race: Orokin
Sex: Male
Age: 10,948 years old
Height: 7 feet (2.1336 meters) while disguised as a mortal, 2,000+ feet (610+ meters) in his true form
Weight: 350 pounds (158.757 kilograms) while disguised as a mortal, ( 2.6 * 10^11 (260,000,000,000) tons in his true form
Physical appearance:
Additional characteristics:
Despite his extreme age, he looks like he's merely in his late 60s to early 70s.
His body is completely covered in countless scars, ranging from claw marks to lightning burns.
He has the physique of an Olympic strongman and calloused hands that never so much as quiver under even the most stressful of situations and possess a vice-like grip that's almost impossible to escape from.
His sharp nails are actually retracted claws, and are capable of rending flesh and metal alike when fully extended.
His eyes are a rich golden color with red accents, and sport slitted, reptilian pupils.
His ears are elongated and elf-like.
His teeth are razor sharp and the canines are elongated into vicious fangs.
His face is weathered and rarely shows emotion, but if you look closely there are clear smile lines.
He has both crow's feet and dark circles under his eyes.
Most of his hair has turned grey, but some still possess the coppery red of his youth.
Though almost never seen as he's extremely good at hiding them -though the reason why is unknown - he has a pair of draconic wings with black and gold scales sprouting from his back, a draconic tail of similar coloration, the tip of which is bladed and impossibly sharp, and a line of bone spikes that protrude from his back and run along his spine.
Much like most of his family, he has an Irish accent.
Profession(s): arcanologist, biomechanical engineer, licensed arms dealer, CEO of Wylde Labs, religious leader
Allied factions: the Orokin Empire, the ASF, the Drone colonies of Copper 9, Humanity
Alignment: Chaotic Good
Pronouns: he/him
Sexuality: Demiromantic omnisexual
Relationships:
@theblackcubeofdarkness Cube, @emily-and-friends Clown - spouse (polyamorous relationship)
Evelyn, Emma, Oswald, Ruby, Lucy, Lily, @theblackcubeofdarkness Oliver - biological father
Cyn, Delilah, @emily-and-friends Emily, @solvar-the-drone, @nate-doorman-elliot, @thad-the-jock, @p3nny-bakes-cookies - adoptive father
Agent Arrow - master and mentor
Slyvan - pet owner
Natah - son
Janus - host
Margret, Tessa, Abby, Odin, Belnar, Alice, Sarah, Cephalon Eda, Elizabeth, Asmodeus, @emily-and-friends Mikan, @sea-slug-in-a-sweater, @r4m-has-horns - employer
Andy - Champion
Serial Designation J, Yeva, @emily-and-friends Serial Designation O, Adele, Valentine, Vivien, Koki, Mimi, @asknoridoorman, @roseamongrobots - close friend and associate
@asf-director-turner - contracted employer
Ko, @emily-and-friends Serial Designation V, Korrina, @serial-designation-mj, @worker-drone-alex - (potential) future father-in-law
Personality:
He is extremely adept at hiding his true emotions, creating an illusion of perpetual calm.
Though he never reveals this information to anyone but those closest to him, in truth he is haunted by his past and suffers from PTSD so severe that he's developed an irrational fear of falling asleep, for he knows the only things waiting for him on the other side are vivid and horrific nightmares.
He has a bit of a smoking problem, though he usually only smokes when he's particularly stressed.
He loves his family dearly, though can be a bit overprotective of his children - especially Ruby, his firstborn.
He is known for harboring extreme hatred and prejudice - bordering on flat out speciesism - against demonic entities, with exactly one known exception.
Contrary to popular belief, he does have a sense of humor.
Though rarely seen, he is known for having a sadistic streak and is not above torture if the situation demands it.
Though he loves the thrill of combat and is very much driven by honor, he is not above "cheating" or "playing dirty;" he can and will exploit your weaknesses at every chance he gets, and he never fights fair.
He has a bad habit of consuming the souls of those he kills in order to steal their knowledge and power.
He is deeply religious and has an unwavering sense of duty to keep his culture alive, as his home world is gone and he is among the last of his species.
He's very slow to trust, and is extremely secretive. Not even his two spouses know all his secrets.
He's a complete workaholic and loves his job.
Important lore tidbits:
Like many of his kin, the Doctor's true form is incompatible with the comprehension of mortals, and so he devised a plan to hide it. He tracked down a human scientist named Cedric Wylde, killed him, and stole his name, flesh, voice, and even his very soul. The new Doctor Wylde now wears the old one's skin like a costume, though how he fits inside is unknown. He has worn this skin for just over 50 years, and once it finally gives out on him, he'll have to shed it and repeat the process.
In order to keep himself from sinking into the ground as its crushed under his immense weight, the doctor is constantly using gravity magic to make himself lighter. At this current point in time it's become second nature to him, as effortless and automatic as breathing, and sometimes he forgets he's even doing it.
He is a veteran of a great war known as the Fell War, and it is the cause of not only his PTSD, but also his prejudice against demons.
Over the millennia he's developed a split personality; a twisted version of himself named Janus. Pray you never meet him, and that if you do the meeting is brief and nonviolent. Janus only emerges to "play" when Doctor Wylde nears his breaking point mentally.
He is capable of allowing parts of his true self to temporarily break through the skin suit as "mutations" if needs be. He can also contort his body at inhuman angles at will.
Additional lore trivia:
In his youth, he had a bit of a superiority complex and this obnoxious "holier than thou" attitude that only got more infuriating when you realize that he's right. Such things were snuffed out of him during the Fell War.
Though fully ambidextrous as an adult, he was born left handed.
Do NOT challenge him to a drinking contest, as not only does he already have a drinking problem and by doing so you're encouraging him, but the alcohol content needed to get him even slightly tipsy is enough to kill several people from alcohol poisoning.
He absolutely despises the word "moist."
His favorite color seems to change every few days. This is because his favorite color is actually outside the wavelengths of visible light for humans, and he's trying to find one that's the most similar.