Would You Be So Kind As To Draw A Fish? Any Fish You Desire. But It Needs Legs.

Would you be so kind as to draw a fish? Any fish you desire. But it needs legs.

At first I was gonna be really pedantic and do the whole "uh ahkshually every tetrapod I've drawn is technically a fish with legs"

But then I thought about how cool a Madtom with boots would be

This is Snivel; she's the result of a "make a One Piece character" forum thread. I was originally going to go for more of an out and out vampire look but I saw this one image of Peter Cushing's Van Helsing where he's making a cross out of some candleholders and decided to pivot in that direction.

She's an escaped slave by way of lucking into a devil fruit and on the way out she assaulted a celestial dragon who I've decided to call Saint Grape, draining all his blood and then flying to safety before passing out. This Grape guy unfortunately survived and called the marines on her but whichever one found her took the bold moral stance that the child-killing that would be on his hands would be bad so he pretended not to have seen her. It turns out Grape was, and remains, such a cataclysmic drinker that Snivel is still not sober over a decade after the fact, so she's turned to a life of coffee-centric piracy.

It was an interesting challenge trying to figure out how to do a bug Zoan since I couldn't find any examples; I think Oda avoids them because it's less intuitive to translate human expressions onto insect faces. What I decided to do is have the maxillary palps do that job, though of course I'm not quite slavishly honouring the anatomy of a real mosquito anyway.

Strián, a troll archer. He's like 2 metres tall and surely not thinking about the war. Like most trolls (who, being big guys who eat a lot, used to hibernate in the winter) he tends to start falling asleep when he sees snow. Or perhaps he's learning how to read in that second image and his teacher's choice of book is boring him.

Forgot to do a post here featuring all of them so here it is now. Hopefully more guys of this kind incoming this year.

I felt like putting effort into tagging today (procrastination is hitting hard) so I went way beyond the tag limit and tumblr ate them lol; post looks naked now.

Some art that looks cool I think. Belated happy easter.

I don't remember if I've ever posted these two here not dressed for Halloween lol; haven't drawn them since 2020 so it's quite possible I haven't