Oh hey, the rest of the snats/slats (snailcats/slugcats)! These guys are sgraffito'd with some celadon glazes slapped on top for a jewel-like & slightly slimy effect!
Also, I've started to upload previews to my shop (heywitch dot bigcartel dot com) & am going to be opening it up next week...I'll decide on a date/time tomorrow & announce it as soon as I've made up my dang mind!
I know you have your little umbreon/claydol sona you use to represent yourself occasionally, but I just keep envisioning you as some kind of conch snail delicately peeking it's eyestalks out cautiously, before throwing artwork on par with Italian Renaissance painters into the fucking wind
here’s an interesting mollusc I saw in Singapore: the yellow-shelled semi-slug, Parmarion martensi. with a much-reduced shell that’s mostly kept covered in tissue, it looks much like its name implies: something between slug and snail.
“slug,” though, is really an evolutionary state and not a neat taxonomic grouping: slugs have evolved many times independently from shelled ancestors. in fact, many apparently shell-less slugs retain a tiny flat spiral of calcified shell inside their bodies. in this species, the shell isn’t so greatly reduced, but still too small to hide within.
while some gastropod families are entirely shell-less (all slugs), Parmarion has close relatives with shells and others that have progressed even further towards slugdom!