shimmeringneptune

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Finally Happy With How To Draw My Splat Bio AU's "Shrimp" And "Crabs". It Only Took Four Years And Staring

Sketches of speculative land crustaceans, "Shrimp" and "Crabs". Shrimp have a somewhat raptorial stance. They are a lightweight cursorial lineage of land crustaceans. They are omnivorous pursuit hunters with two unguligrade style walking legs. Beneath them are Crabs, a slow, heavy lineage of land crustaceans. They are omnivorous grazers with four plantigrade style walking legs. Both species, being descended from coconut crabs, also feature four pleopods used to hold eggs, found only on females.

Drawings of Crusty Sean from Splatoon drawn as a Shrimp in the style of the previous image. He is shown both in his Splatoon 2 outfit and taking a selfie while wearing his Splatoon 3 outfit. There is also a small sketch of a modified bicycle with a longer seat to rest his tail on.

Drawings of Bisk from Splatoon 2 in the style of a Crab in the first image of the set. The front view shows him without his sunglasses, giving a better view of his facial anatomy. There is also a side view and a back view to show markings and anatomy from different angles. He is shown to pluck the sensory segments of his shorter set of antennae for fashion purposes.

Drawings of Mr.Coco from Splatoon 3 in the style of a Crab in the first image of the set. There is a back view and a front view where he is waving one claw at the screen. There are extra scribbles of his face showing different antennae positioning, and an extra small drawing of him striking a cutesy pose.

Drawings of Craymond from Splatoon 2. He is drawn as a juvenile of the speculative land shrimp shown in the first image of the set, and walks using his claws and first two legs instead of the bipedal raptorial stance of the adults. Unlike a real life shrimp, his abdomen is more similar to a hermit crab's, except with hardened plates on the dorsal side. On the bottom of the page he is drawn with Flow from Splatoon 2, both as the small juvenile form drawn above riding on Flow's head, and in a theoretical grown state, where he is no longer small enough to sit on Flow's head and is beginning to transition into an adult shrimp's bipedal posture.

Finally happy with how to draw my Splat Bio AU's "Shrimp" and "Crabs". It only took four years and staring intently at unboxing videos of a very expensive articulated coconut crab figure to figure out what the fuck is going on with their faces

Since it's been a while the Splat Bio AU's main goal is to consolidate the number of different lineages evolving into sapient land people. The biggest group of truly terrestrial crustaceans in the Mollusk Era are descended from the humble coconut crab, Birgus latrans. There are two sapient species from this lineage, colloquially referred to as Shrimp and Crabs. Which is confusing, because neither of them are either of those things but that is a common theme of the Splat Bio AU. It's fine.

They grow pretty slowly compared to a lot of the other people because molting over and over again to big size takes a while. They probably have a very different way of conceptualizing age and life stages accordingly but I'd have to think about it later.

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I don't think many people realize how much they've been turned into a bunch of casually cynical jerks.

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