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Published: 2012-04-09 22:05:27 +0000 UTC; Views: 675; Favourites: 15; Downloads: 3
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i like how you think about the internal organs/structures of these creatures. a lot of people don't do that
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Thank you! 
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wooooow so adorable!
and i really don't know much abou anatomy, bu his is qualiy pete delivery
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Thank you! It may not happen any soon, but I guess this one will get an update too, as well as all its relatives I've drawn...
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it looks awesome colored
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Thank you! I'll try to bring color in more of my future uploads
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have you got those new color pencils?
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They were not used for this picture
In fact, I haven't tried them yet D=
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you have 'em? way to go, big guy!
i'm excited to see them on paper!!!!!
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Interesting. Does this one move using its arms? They seem muscular enough to propel it over the seafloor... it looks pretty heavy, too...
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Yeah I know it looks "armored" but the scutes aren't nearly as big or "heavy-looking" on the actual creature, but it's too hard to make them small enough and still hexagonal. I'm a lazy person too, which is why I didn't bother with making them smaller. XD
It doesn't live on the sea floor, it's supposed to be a pelagic animal, and that's why I thought the "gut bladder" would help to make it lighter, but I didn't include it here to see what it looks like without it. Seeing that it evoques "heaviness" in people, it really isn't a bad idea to give it the gut bladder after all...
The arms are strong because they help to propell it through water and they're used for catching prey. the animal is supposed to have some nasty spines to protect it from predators nd to have grabbing surfaces to catch prey. i think those thorns would be mainly on the inside of the arms, they could work for defense as well as catching prey. the animal could "slap" predators and give them some painful wounds. The spines would break if too much strain was put on them, and I imagine those infected not-easily-healing wounds it could cause...
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All right, so it's a starfish-sea urchin-jellyfish... I guess those scutes are probably very fine indeed... Still, nice job!
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They are!
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In which direction? Are they that thick, or that wide?
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I meant diameter, but they'd be very thin too, more than twice Ε―wide" than thick, and that's why they'd need the spines for protection. Their tiny osteoderms woud allow for the same flexibility as fish's scales
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Thanks! And sorry for the typo
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Thank you! I'll do this with all "up-to-date" anatomies I have done already in B/W and this is the style I'll follow in the future.
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cool how has you day been then?
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I have replied to this question on the other anatomy picture you've commented on 
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Thank you!
about the size... Honestly, I am not sure yet. there could be different species which would look slightly differently, some would have shorter arms than this one... But I haven't thought abou how big they exactly are... I guess that most of them would be 30 - 50 cm "tall" but who knows? maybe there could be one that would be 1.5 m long or even more.
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scales that are would limit its size.
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Well... First, why should the scales limit its size? And second... The "scales" are much bigger than they would beon the real animal, this is just a sketch and it's nowhere near being 100% exact.
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nice. The scales could be equal to the exoskeletons of arthropods, which help protect the child from the elements, ect. But it is a major impediment to grow beyond a meter because it is an invertebrate.
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Well arthropods are limited due to the fact that the exoskeletons couldn't suppert their weight on dry land, and they have to shed their shells in order to grow. These creatures are aquatic and their armor is composed of rather small "scales" rather than the armor of arthropods.
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Back at the aliens like this a lot! Cave aliens tommorow?
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Thanks! Yeah! If things go well, I would definitely like to progress with the cave-dwellers tomorrow!
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Yay ill try to put up the silicone aliens then
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