Day Twelve: Elysia chlorotica Merperson

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After yesterdays' mermaid, and remembering a post I recently read about the animal, and with nothing else giving me inspiration at all... I ended up drawing this. Needed to draw something not nearly as fierce as what I've been doing lately too, it's fun, but one can only draw so many snarlers before they blur together. (And yeah, yeah, yet another lazy background post.)

But a little about the Elysia chlorotica. It's one of the only animals to synthesize it's own food from sunlight, sure it needs to eat a single meal of algae to pick up the required proteins and genes, but it does. It is also a simultaneous hermaphrodite, meaning its' got both male and female sex organs at the same time. For being no more than a couple inches long, it's quite an epic animal.

I need to start thinking about what I'm going to do several days down the line so I don't keep getting stuck, but it's been so long since I've done art with any frequency, I'm quite rusty.