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Published: 2012-11-03 11:26:38 +0000 UTC; Views: 6712; Favourites: 352; Downloads: 0
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Size: Approx. A5Medium: Graphite on paper, digital colouring.
Deep sea creatures. Now that shit is fucked up.
This drawing isn't half as creepy as what actually exists down there, haha. I've always been fascinated and entirely creeped out by the deep sea. Translucent, slimy and enormous-eyed monstrosities in a vast pit of total darkness. I'm sure they're just misunderstood.
I've been trying to do more rough sketching, without any intention of making something significant. Going back to pencil. I find that i do a lot of my "sketching" in my head, and when it comes to putting an idea down, it only involves two or three extremely basic and tiny sketches before I start "the real thing". I admire artists who have a much more drawn-out process, so to speak, where they end up with books filled with little sketches and half-finished visual stories to look back over. It's good for productivity and creativity. Perhaps ignore the fact that I turned this sketch into a final work, lol. The intention was/is there.
Aesthetically, I liked the idea of portraying this as a half-living fossil that just didn't make sense. On paper, within the paper, behind glass, in its natural habitat, a memory in a dream... all this rolled into one. A curiosity from a museum you'll never find again.
A (slightly late) happy Halloween!
~Simon
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Comments: 95
Wow! Interesting lookin and very detailed creature!
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Thanks! Glad you like it, despite the inherent ugliness
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So cool! I've always wanted to know what that'd look like!
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Que guapo!! EstΓ‘ chulΓsimo el bicho!!
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Have i ever told you how madly incredible you are? Well, you really are. I can hardly find words to describe your art.. Your art! It just comes as a fact of creativity / of charm / of mastery / of beauty (whatever you prefer).
..so once you see it you can be sure that some of the best things in life still exist. It just has such an effect on me.
Anyway, very unsuspected conclusion: i adore it β₯
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You are so lovely. Thankyou, really! It means a lot to me
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Thanks! Anglerfish are so weird, they already look like science fiction.
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I've always been fascinated with what magnificent creatures live within the vast depths of the ocean, untouched by mankind. However, I'm almost frightened to find out.
Excellent work! I'd love to see more like this piece from you, you clearly have brilliant imagination.
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Very much how I feel 
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My pleasure! 
I have the ideas all planned out in my mind, but the connection of pencil to paper massacres everything... Any tips for handling a problem like that?
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This is a very interesting idea and implementation. I like the curvy thin lines, delicate and creepy
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Thankyou! It's amazing how much meaning can lie in the way a line is drawn.
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Really well done youngster....would make one awesome fish taco!
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Haha, not too sure about that... I imagine it tasting like actual garbage, where the garbage consists mostly of eel. But hey, maybe a taste to acquire. Cheers man
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Haha. People secretly like to be creeped out.
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I knew you would come up with something like this eventually
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Haha, what do you mean? The deep sea gets to us all...
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Exactly. Plus, you were always a little bit pinky. And you know, Christmas is coming
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I like this very much, especially the idea of a nonsensical living fossil.
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Thanks! Yes, as soon as I drew some of the "bones", I knew that was the direction it was going
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