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Have you ever thought, "I like but I want them to look at least 100% weirder?" Well has got a theme for you this week! It's ichthyoplankton-the baby forms of fish. Here's a larval butterflyfish.

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2020-04-05

And talk about a glow-up! The European eel's life cycle was so mysterious that even the Greek philosopher Aristotle pondered where eels came from - he decided that they sprung up spontaneously from the mud

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2020-04-05

Juvenile frogfish - my significant other thought I was sketching a Doritos 😂😂😂

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2020-04-05

The European eel's life history was a mystery for centuries, as fishermen never caught anything they could identify as a young eel. The transparent, leaf-shaped larvae - called leptocephali - begin their journey in the Sargasso Sea before drifting towards Europe

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2020-04-05

A painting of a Ribbon Eel (Rhinomuraena quaesita) larvae from today's baby pics edition of from images taken by D. Zupanc at the Vienna Zoo.

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2020-04-05

One nice thing about moving house last week is rediscovering things like this - a picture of a fish I made in preschool, aged 5yrs 😄

...I think those discoloured things in the ‘coral’ are meant to be crabs 🦀

Crayon and watercolour. 🐟

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2020-03-31

Not my best, but this is a I made for yesterday. This is one of six (?) species of

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2020-03-30

Started learning a new set of fish species... can anyone guess where these damselfish are from? 😉

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2020-03-30

I'm in unfamiliar territory here but for E's fantastic suggestion I had to try my hand at a fish from memory. In order to save my blushes I've gone relatively simple with a Swordfish from memory!!

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2020-03-29

Two unusually shaped fish from memory for I would do more with inkpens, but my 0.05 died and wont be replaced until wednsday.

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2020-03-29

For this Wednesday's I drew the Snail Darter (Percina tanasi). The Snail darter has gone from "endangered" to "threatened" relatively recently. Keep up the good work little fish!

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2020-03-26

Happy I needed a cartoon jaw diagram of Satanoperca oral jaws so... here they are! Adding to my growing collection...

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2020-03-23

For the fold-a-fish inspired I have a discus (Symphysodon Aequifasciatus) folded into a peppermint angelfish (Centropyge Boylei).

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2020-03-22

Happy (#WednesdayFishSketch?)! I drew the giant mottled (Anguilla marmorata) for today's Madagascar Fishes theme! 🙂🐍🐟

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2020-03-18

Burbot (𝑳𝒐𝒕𝒂 𝒍𝒐𝒕𝒂) for It is a large fish known to grow to as much as 1.5 m in length and 34 kg in mass. Sketch and colored on ook

Follow my path on: https://t.co/agFg4fXaK8

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2020-03-15

For the Ireland-themed I present you the Common Bream. This freshwater cyprinid is a sturdy fish, common but often overlooked. I invite you to search for underwater picture, to see this beauty in action!

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2020-03-15

For today's I chose to play with again and add another set of jaws to my growing cartoon diagram. Here are the jaws of Neoclinus blanchardi, the sarcastic fringehead!

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2020-03-09

Hey, followers is having the 2020 University of Georgia and Augusta University Student Science and Medical Illustration Juried Exhibition until March 27th. Check it out if you are in the Athens, Ga area.
Loved the crayfish!❤❤❤

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2020-02-29

A few of the fish I’ve finished recently for my upcoming book... not sure if any fit this week’s theme though.

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2020-02-23