January Challenge 2013: Day Two

[ink_in_hand]

Forgot to give myself time to type stuff up. Whoops. Anywho, here's one of my oldest merfolk characters, Co'ek. He's based of the West Indian Ocean Coelacanth, which are a naturally blue "fish" with white spots/splotches/splatches everywhere. In case you didn't know, the coelacanth group has been around since the Devonian, or about 400 million years ago. Back when fish were starting to really branch out, and do things like discover dry land.

Comments

[eerian_sadow]

oh, i do like him! he looks cuddly, and i love that he's not super thin like so many merpeople (thanks a bunch, Disney. :/ ) and his spots give him so much character!

[ink_in_hand]

He's a friendly sort, so cuddles are welcome. As for his body type, yeah, there's far too many super thin merfolk out there. It's fine every now and then because there are people out there like that, but it does feed into the "ideal" body type for ~beauty~ that mass media shoves down everyone's throats, Disney or not. I've got a couple really skinny merfolk, like my anorexic looking gulper eel, but I've tried not to go that way all the time.

And argahphbbt, his spots. They make him so hard to redraw. |D