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If you aren't familiar with what goes on around ConceptArt.org, let me explain the context of this image to you. On CA, there are several weekly activities, such as Creature of the Week (CoW), Environment of the Week (EoW), Character of the Week (ChoW), and so on. Usually these activities each have their own unrelated theme each week, but every so often they all coordinate and have related themes. That is what's happening now. Each activity is doing something related to DEEP: Undersea Utopia, a sort of underwater future world. My only creature concept so far has been the jewel fish.
Jewel fish are like living jewelry. They are purchased as eggs and raised to see their owners as the only source of food, so that they follow their owners for their entire lives. Nothing looks more becoming on a DEEP-woman than a personal school of beautiful jewel fish.
I've changed the design of this fish slightly since saving this particular image, but I'll wait to show that until I have a complete image of several jewel fish up. All I changed was its mouth, anyway.
The concept:
The Backeye is among the larger and more powerful varieties of jewel fish. Owners of the Backeye must take special care that their other jewel fishes are compatible, for although all jewel fish are bred to be unaggressive, the ancestors of the Backeye were reef predators, and it is not unknown for Backeyes to occasionally eat smaller jewel fish. A peculiarity of the Backeye and its relatives is that its visual organs are near the rear of its body, hence the name.

Description
If you aren't familiar with what goes on around ConceptArt.org, let me explain the context of this image to you. On CA, there are several weekly activities, such as Creature of the Week (CoW), Environment of the Week (EoW), Character of the Week (ChoW), and so on. Usually these activities each have their own unrelated theme each week, but every so often they all coordinate and have related themes. That is what's happening now. Each activity is doing something related to DEEP: Undersea Utopia, a sort of underwater future world. My only creature concept so far has been the jewel fish.
Jewel fish are like living jewelry. They are purchased as eggs and raised to see their owners as the only source of food, so that they follow their owners for their entire lives. Nothing looks more becoming on a DEEP-woman than a personal school of beautiful jewel fish.
I've changed the design of this fish slightly since saving this particular image, but I'll wait to show that until I have a complete image of several jewel fish up. All I changed was its mouth, anyway.
The concept:
The Backeye is among the larger and more powerful varieties of jewel fish. Owners of the Backeye must take special care that their other jewel fishes are compatible, for although all jewel fish are bred to be unaggressive, the ancestors of the Backeye were reef predators, and it is not unknown for Backeyes to occasionally eat smaller jewel fish. A peculiarity of the Backeye and its relatives is that its visual organs are near the rear of its body, hence the name.