January Challenge 2013: Day Twenty Nine

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A couple more of my gastropod inspired merfolk, my other being the cone snail I drew earlier this month, though these ones are older in terms of when I created them. Played around with a simpler almost chibi style to try and cut down on their complexity, the exercise um... didn't quite work.

 

The one with the blue belly is Veoz, hie's a Janolus novozealandicus nudibranch merperson. I love drawing hiem but damn is hie complicated. As for the alternate pronoun, nudibranchs are hermaphrodites and Veoz has a slight leaning towards a masculine ID, I'll leave it at that.

 

Whereas Muscles is a green morph Chelynotus (or Chelyonotus, can't seem to find a solid official spelling) semperi, a species of velutinid. She's one of my merfolk that I've given the facial and body structure of a Black woman in my own pathetic attempt to keep from defaulting to whitewashing in my characters. Not happy how I lost some of those features in the way I drew her here.