Three for the Burgess Shale and One Ediacaran

Hot damn, Burgess Shale merfolk are fun. Going to have to do more once I'm done with my exchange stuff.

Hallucinogenia: The first one I'd drawn of the set, which is rather apparent with how sketchy it is. Probably explains why they're so pissed off too. Remind me to whip up a better one sometime, Ultharkitty.

Opabinia: Figuring out how to incorporate it's iconic mouth into a mer without making that mer into some sort of Lovecraftian beastie took a little longer than I would have liked. Still, I love her to bits.

Pikaia: Couldn't leave out what is very likely to be the earliest animal to have had a backbone, and a backbone so new that it wasn't much more than a thicker chord of tissue running through the animal.

And Charnia: Which actually doesn't belong to the Burgess Shale but is an Ediacaran animal Ultharkitty introduced me to during a discussion of merfolk and had mused whether or not it could be done. Well, there we go.

So far, they're all nameless. And I need to do some serious research so that they're at least somewhat accurate to their animal influences, before I can polish them all up. Right now, I'm really happy with the different body types, It's really nice to expand beyond your stand skinny Ariel. I'd like to do more again sometime, preferably sooner than later.