astro-axolotl

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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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A Deep Sea Friend: The Blob Sculpin. These Are Also Known As "blobfish," Which Won The Price For World's

A blobfish sits on the sandy, purple sea bed, illuminated by the light beam of a submarine. Its thin tail is green-blue and another fin of the same color waves down from the base of the tail to the mid-back. The body is a soft gray and triangular. Two fan-like fins frame the face on either side. It is bulbous and like the rest of the body studded with small white bumps. Its eye is small, black, and gleaming with quiet knowing.

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.

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Two girls sit cross-legged across from each other on a dark wooden floor. Behind them is a green wall with gray siding. The girl on the left rests right elbow on her knee and rests her cheek in her hand. Her pink eyebrows wrinkle over her gray eyes with concern. Her pink hair hangs over her forehead. There's a bandaid on her visible cheek. She's wearing a light gray, oversized long-sleeved shirt which is torn at the right elbow, revealing various scars and one fresh bandage and gauze pad. Her sweatpants are dark gray and her socks are white. The black girl on the left supports the pink-haired girl's left elbow as she continues wrapping a bandage around a cut that goes from mid bicep to mid forearm. The pink haired girl's hand hangs limp-wristed inches from the medic's chest. The medic wears blue overalls with a red cross stitched on the front, black socks and a red and black checkered flannel. The cuff of the flannel's sleeve drops just enough to reveal a bandage around her left wrist. Her focused gaze and the bandaids on her cheek and nose-bridge contrast with the woolen frog hat on her head. It has black button eyes. Her hair is short and black.

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A lovely friend!

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Here's a friend for you too

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