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Drawlloween 3 - Goblin

This is an even messier sketch than the first day’s because I got carried away with the design instead of the drawing itself.

These are the notes i made on the creature:

(ignore the elongated forearm; it’s not nearly so exaggerated)

the idea is that they’re scavangers that live in magic-infested areas (like, magical lakes, sentient trees, swords in stones, etc) and they feed on the bodies of those drawn to the magic or (in the case of humans) deliberately trying to come in contact with it, and get killed along the way

the lioncloth may be partially made out of people skin (they’re resourceful like that)

their feet are a bit more ape-like than ours and their hands are sorta racoony

and they’re marsupials. because.

they’re not ~evil~ (i have trouble with inherently evil species) just sorta gross and repulsive to humans

they eat carrion and generally don’t kill

they don’t get along with people because either a) people see them eating other humans and assumed they killed them or b) are mad at them for desecrating bodies

and though they do use tools, when they eat they just sorta dig in with their hands (unless they’re collecting large chunks in order to store it) which freaks people out as well

they exist all over the world, but in non-overlapping areas which leads to different subspecies in different environments

they play an important in maintaining any magical ecosystem - yay!

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Got tagged by pretentiouslimericks to do an ~aesthetic~ post (i.e. “Post 10 pictures from your phone that match your aesthetic.”).

I tag whoever wants to do it (and “@” or tag me so I can see your post, if you want)! 

Heads up - I’m no insect expert, and I think I id’d those correctly, but if I’m wrong, let me know!

Video: Divers dwarfed by the biggest Ocean Sunfish we've ever seen ...

A group of divers encountered this massive Mola mola off the coast of Portugal.

It looks like “Deep Blue” the great white shark has a challenger in the pelagic heavyweight division. This mindbogglingly large ocean sunfish (Mola mola) was encountered by photographer Miguel Aleixo off the coast of Portugal…

I read this study for class the other week! I feel like a bit of an idiot for not remembering it, but it's still awesome!

Inspired from the new tumblr blog fuckyeahconvergentevolution.tumblr.com i wanted to make a convergent evolution post. This is an example i like to use often in my presentations because it portrays convergent evolution remarkably, but i will get to that later on.

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