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ABronyAccount — Cutie Mark Crusaders Freshwater Ecologists Yay!

Published: 2012-10-27 20:46:28 +0000 UTC; Views: 1562; Favourites: 27; Downloads: 65
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Description So this happened.
Kinda playing around with ripples and hatching and things that aren't just outlines of ponies. It succeeds as practice at least. A learning experience, shall we say. I actually started this back in the beginning of summer to play with my new felt-tipped pens, but didn't get very far before shelving it for a season or so. Got tired of it sitting around gathering literal dust, so I started finishing it off in between bouts of Sudoku and interwebbing.
That poorly rendered fish represents a real animal, btw. Fathead minnows , also known as Rosy Red when they're orange mutants, are native to North America and are widely sold as bait or feeder fish. They're also very common model organisms in laboratory testing and toxicology studies. Unlike most minnows that just scatter their eggs and swim off, male fatheads guard their eggs on the underside of a log, rock, or other kind of shelter. They fan the eggs to oxygenate them, and rub a fungicidal substance from their skin onto the eggs. Parent care pretty much ends once they hatch, when the fry are left to fend for themselves (if they can avoid being eaten).

MLP:FiM belongs to Hasbro and Studio B.
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Comments: 15

Predo50 [2012-11-19 17:13:43 +0000 UTC]

Lol awesome! So cute! Love the details also! You have done a bunch of great drawings in my absence, I'm glad to see so much new awesome stuff! Makes me want to see more that I missed !

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TapeDiggity [2012-11-06 03:01:56 +0000 UTC]

The fish works well as a visual focus, since the darkness of its inking contrasts heavily with the lightness of the CMC and the surrounding area, and it's always a pleasure to see you do your crazy hatching thing. The thick outlining of the water's edge confuses my perception of depth a bit (thicker lines usually imply greater proximity), but it's all good; after all, water's ALWAYS hard to render...

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ABronyAccount In reply to TapeDiggity [2012-11-06 03:36:09 +0000 UTC]

I have enough problems drawing things with straight light, and now I gotta worry about BENT light? WTFract?

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Ocean-Pony [2012-11-05 05:41:11 +0000 UTC]

It's funny, because I work in a fish laboratory and for the past two years I've been working exclusively with fatheads! Pimephales promelas, as it were!

Wow oh wow this is an awesome pic. It feels so relevant to my life, as in addition to lab work I'm taking a conservation of fish in aquatic ecosystems course. FISH R KOOL GUIS

...I cannot be held responsible If I turn this in with my final paper.

As always, awesome work, sah!

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ABronyAccount In reply to Ocean-Pony [2012-11-05 06:14:37 +0000 UTC]

So you should also know that bait buckets have introduced these remarkable little critters into parts of the country where they were never meant to be, causing some disruption of the local ecosystems. One of the drawbacks to their ready availability is that they often wind up in the hands of the irresponsible, who can't fathom the potential consequences of releasing live animals into a new body of water.
At least they're not golden shiners or mosquito fish, right?

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Ocean-Pony In reply to ABronyAccount [2012-11-08 07:00:09 +0000 UTC]

Add on top of that the species' natural tolerance to a wide range of conditions and you got yourself an invasive little problem.
It really is a shame people don't realize the bigger picture, especially when a short term action that benefits them has dire consequences for the ecosystem at large.

And damn straight they're not. Or rainbow trout. Buggers have been introduced for sportfishing EVERYWHERE.

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exoteeque [2012-10-28 03:12:47 +0000 UTC]

there should be background jaws theme playing.....or waves and whale noises perhaps.

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ABronyAccount In reply to exoteeque [2012-10-28 03:54:35 +0000 UTC]

Sweetie can wail!
Well, when she doesn't have a snorkel stuffed into her snout.

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exoteeque In reply to ABronyAccount [2012-10-29 09:02:55 +0000 UTC]

are they looking for merponies?

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ABronyAccount In reply to exoteeque [2012-10-29 16:10:13 +0000 UTC]

Loose bits. It's a wishing pond. They're going to try and wish for cutie marks.

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Lomeo [2012-10-27 20:55:05 +0000 UTC]

Really nice, I love your attention to details. But I feel like this drawing lacks something that would make it look like it's actually taking place underwater.

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ABronyAccount In reply to Lomeo [2012-10-27 21:11:15 +0000 UTC]

Hmmmm... aha! It's missing a sunken pirate ship and sharks!

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Robopengwin In reply to Lomeo [2012-10-27 21:04:04 +0000 UTC]

No indication of a current?

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ABronyAccount In reply to Robopengwin [2012-10-27 21:19:23 +0000 UTC]

I'll toss a battery in there. That'll get some current going!

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Robopengwin In reply to ABronyAccount [2012-10-27 23:40:21 +0000 UTC]

NO!!! NOT THAT KIND OF CURRENT!!

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