Fish on Friday

Your Friday fish blog is here. I worked up this lovely Remora remora using carbon dust on illustration board for the latest Illustration Smackdown on the From the Stacks blog. Nature is full of wonderful creatures, but this one is just weird. The front dorsal fin has evolved into a giant sucker disc which the Remora uses to attach to a larger fish, turtle, ray, or shark. The larger animal swims fast enough to increase the oxygen flow over the Remora's gills, which is good since they will die in still waters. Wacky!

writing and reference

This past weekend I got some great new cards from the pickypockets booth. I spent the last three hours (in between reference questions - probably why it took so long) enhancing it with my first ever pop-up.

I had so much fun I might make a habit out of this. :)

I have! More pics after the break....