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Published: 2009-02-13 11:10:03 +0000 UTC; Views: 8139; Favourites: 226; Downloads: 0
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Finally I have submitted something! :woot:I have been talking about arting of some description for some time without actually doing anything. Damned Art Block Ninjas!
Designed for C.O.W (aerial cephalopod) really, but I missed out. I have more of this beasty to follow, side views and what not, but I haven't the energy to finish them at the moment.
Fauxs Albatross Squid
I have something of a write up but it needs editing. Again
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ah, so water things r flyin things now hu
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Who knows, perhaps
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It's crazy some thing like this hasn't evolved in the past, because there are those squid that jump out of the water. I doubt that this behavior is new, considering the age of cephalopods, but maybe some thing like this did evolve, but left no remains because it became even lighter for gliding/flight.
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Well I just extrapolated from flying squid. I can't see how such a creature could exist though I am afraid to say
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Well maybe just more adapted for gliding Is kinda what I ment, but maybe if they did lighten up some more and adapt to have membraned tentacles (or wings like these) and a more opposable jet, with the ability to use air, I could see them sustaining longer and longer flight/glides.
Or maybe I just like flying cephalopods
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Nothing wrong with liking flying cephalopods!
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Thanks a bunch! I need to revisit this lol!
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To add more! Different angles etc
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Thank you 
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Fantastic! Glad I could help
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Instead of having white sails, sails would be black. Squid ink. No white bird droppings for thes poor fools, oh no...~
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It would be rather annoying. I would say that sails would be mottled white and black and grey to hide all the stains as I still envision birds in this world.
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It's the same woe as the owner of the tortieshell cat. No matter what the colour of your sweater, you're still boned.
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Lol! My mum has a tortie and its a long hair!
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D: That's tragic.
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She spends a lot on those sticky roller clothes lint picking up things...
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They're evil, they try to eat me...
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They do try to do that, especially if you have an extra linty bellybutton.
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*checks for lint*
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I can't find my belly button...there's lint in the way D:
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Make a sweater!
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I don't know how to knit. D:
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I was thinking of trying crochet. That is supposed to be real easy.
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Suppose there's variations on this one with boomerang fins. Suppose there's squid-heads who elongate their fins for beauty...
It gazes into my soul, head on.
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I need to give it a bit of work. I have learnt a bit more about squid anatomy recently, which means that I need to 'fix' some 'mistakes'.
I know the eyes spook me too...
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Just amazing, have you seen any specimens of taninga danae?
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No but those things are awesome! Damn I love squid!
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yeah, here in Adelaide we have a new species of taninga waiting to be described, shhh.
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OOOh, that sounds fantastic!
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It. Is. Beautiful. Not to mention completely believable for what it is; after all, there are squid that bullet out of the sea and glide (sorta) for a short distance, so this is the extrapolation of that behavior.
More, please!
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Thanks! It need a little reboot and more pictures.
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Looking forward to it.
I was going to ask about the "tusks", but was beaten to the punch.
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Yar that's something that also need a little work!
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You're welcome.
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I LOVE this. LOVE IT. I WANT it. I want to take it home with me, to be alone with me. I also want your Photoshop painting ability, but I imagine it's a prized possession, jealously guarded from the gaze of the prying Eye.
But back to the squid--I love how feasible it looks...I can actually see a cepahlopod becoming something like this. Those tusks remind me of a beaked whale's. Really digging those splotches on the wings and mantle, as well.
My sense of the evolutionary history is some alternate Ordovician...But that's probably because I was watching a show about the Ordovician last night.
Fantastic...I can't wait to see those alternate views!
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