astro-axolotl

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Art blog of Ari Coester. He/him. Mid 20s. I post comic concept art, cute animal watercolor, and surrealist illustration. My favorite things to draw are animals and monsters.

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A Deep Sea Friend: The Blob Sculpin. These Are Also Known As "blobfish," Which Won The Price For World's

A blobfish sits on the sandy, purple sea bed, illuminated by the light beam of a submarine. Its thin tail is green-blue and another fin of the same color waves down from the base of the tail to the mid-back. The body is a soft gray and triangular. Two fan-like fins frame the face on either side. It is bulbous and like the rest of the body studded with small white bumps. Its eye is small, black, and gleaming with quiet knowing.

A deep sea friend: the blob sculpin. These are also known as "blobfish," which won the price for world's ugliest animal a few years back. Why doesn't it look like the blobfish you've seen on the internet? With bulbous noses and frowning lips and pink flesh? Those blobfish were dead and photographed after removing them from their seabed homes (1,600 to 9,200 ft deep) in the pacific. Reeling them up causes their bodies to rapidly expand because of the pressure change, which causes them to become pink and bloated. This blob sculpin rests peacefully on the ocean floor, staring up at the light of a submarine that illuminates it. Soon, it will swim off into the dark, hunting small crustaceans.

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A young girl stands in a green field holding up a lantern. Her brown cat ears are pinned back against her spiky, shoulder length brown hair. A purple cloak wraps her shoulders and its end billows just above her knees. Her brown pants are rolled up above brown boots with black soles. Her long-sleeved shirt is green with gold x's embroidered at the wrists. Rising above the pines in front of her is a large dark blue cat with black ear tufts and white fur in her ears. Her eyes are two yellow moons. Her nose is black. A large star marks her forehead, and smaller stars stud her whole coat. The moon hangs between her ears in the dusk sky. Two dark green pines in the foreground frame the scene.

This is the story of a little girl looking for the mother she has never known. The story of a world of gods and a world of men, and the child caught between them. Zine coming soon.

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A white beta fish curved in a c shape on a black background. Its gray shiny eye stares at the viewer. Its semi-transparent fins contain arms of galaxies and scattered stars.

Galaxy Betta Fish.

Iron is only formed in the hearts of dying stars, and its a key component of vertebrate blood. This fish, like all of us, is made of star-stuff and the galaxies in its fins reflect that.

But astro-axolotl why a fish when all vertebrates have iron in their blood? Good question. The answer is I just really, really like fish.

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Facing towards the camera, a black teenage girl crosses her arms over her chest. In each hand is a pistol. Across her chest, two violet sashes containing bullets. Her shirt is simple white linen; her pants simple brown. A dark blue poncho covers her shoulders and spare fabric cascades off the left side. A black cowboy hat with a violet ribbon shades her stern face. Standing behind her is a bipedal black creature made of rivulets of thick liquid. Two pronghorn antlers sprout from the crown of its head. Its red eye stares at the viewer, emotionless. Two wings spread out fully behind its back. Behind them both the sun is setting, painting the sky red, orange and purple. The sand is the color of blood with small tufts of brush sprouting.

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We love a monster transformation in this household. Osha-violator Dogslobber back at it again.

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2 years ago

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