Well, that went terribly!

[corvi]

My brain is apparently stuck in "implausible invertebrates" mode after the sowbug-with-teeny-forest, so I tried to doodle a moss piglet! With a lantern it definitely, as a creature without any eyes, needs.

This was a terrible idea! 

Wrinkly things are hard to draw, especially if they are so tiny all the picture of them you can see are microscope pictures where they are sort of squashed and lit all weirdly and you can't really tell how the wrinkles are curved or how light falls on them or what color they are.

No drugs were involved in the selection of the color scheme. As far as YOU know, anyway.




In addition to being kinda cute and IMPOSSIBLE TO DRAW APPARENTLY, moss piglets are crazy extremophiles, often found noodling around cutely on top of the himalayas or inside hot springs, looking for teeny plants to eat. They can survive boiling water and hard vacuum, and about a century without any teeny plants.

Moss piglet! Someday I will conquer your wrinkly contours!

Comments

[spiralsheep]

That's adorable. It looks like someone dressed as an alien in space armour and going to a costume party, hee!

[corvi]

Thanks for mentioning naarmamo, I am having All The Fun with Implausible Invertebrates!

[spiralsheep]

One of my friends decided August was boring so she invented naarmamo and we've been having fun with it every year since. You're welcome to join the com if you want, even late and/or intermittently (although you don't get the traditional self-created certificate of completion at the end, heh).

I especially love the point when people become desperate for new ideas and try more experimental techniques, such as e_h's 2011 horse feathers:

http://feng-shui-house.dreamwidth.org/1207746.html

:-)

[juli]

It is the cutest wrinkly sausage guy water bear in the history of water bears! ♥

[corvi]

Aw, thanks. :)

Well...

[ysabetwordsmith]

I think it's cute. I love tardigrades.