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Here's my new digital art, made by Photoshop. It took me several hours to complete this...This pic is my second try on digital painting - by using the tutorial made by adonihs ([link] ). Thanks adonihs ! your tut's really helpful.

explanation :

• Pulvillus = (pulvillus = Latin, "cushion") living cushion, sorta. Living as a suspension feeder, catching planktons by using extended tubefeet along the grooves between arms; inhabits reef pinnacles with clear water to get much better plankton catch. The usage of aposomatic (bright, apo- = Greek, "revealing" soma = "body") coloration warns predator that its body is distasteful. Its tubefeet could secrete clouds of sticky mucus, ejected if handled. Got the inspiration from Sea Apples (Pseudocolochirus violaceus) and Cushion Sea Star (Culcita novaeguinae)

• Arciris = (arch + iris, "rainbow") clearly analogous to earth angelfish/batfish. Its fin projection trisected on the rear of the body. Its scales are beautifully iridescent, and they don't hide from predator by hiding in crevices like average reef-dwelling fishes - they cruise the water around the reef; their size renders them immune to predation (1.8 metres tall). At their breeding season, males would compete with the others to create the most successful display, the most beautiful one.

• Ocellia = (ocellus = "eye") is a raw copy of a butterflyfish...-_-(perhaps not really that identical, but still, being quite obvious). They possess two large, eye-like patterns on the middle of their body, one at each side of the body. Usually, an eyespot would be situated at the edge of the fin (so predators can't inflict serious damage to the vital part - eye, only to the fin), but in this case, the eyespot is fairly resistant to damage as it is made of a collection of bony plates. The cephalic part of the fish is colored black to prevent predators from targeting the real eye, thus protecting it. The bony protrusion along its fins could serve as powerful hooks to prevent the fish being coaxed out from the reef when hiding.

• all of the creatures inhabit the Vulcanesian Sea, an area analogous to the Indo-Pacific Area (seas around Southeast Asia and Oceania, also east coast of Africa) in our world. The Vulcanesian Sea is the richest marine tropical ecosystem in the planet. (Adjacent to the coral reefs and atolls, are large swabs of islands, covered with forest with fauna and flora unique to their own; dominated mostly by palms and terrestrial molluscs)

Any comments and critics would be appreciated .

Description
Here's my new digital art, made by Photoshop. It took me several hours to complete this...This pic is my second try on digital painting - by using the tutorial made by adonihs ([link] ). Thanks adonihs ! your tut's really helpful.

explanation :

• Pulvillus = (pulvillus = Latin, "cushion") living cushion, sorta. Living as a suspension feeder, catching planktons by using extended tubefeet along the grooves between arms; inhabits reef pinnacles with clear water to get much better plankton catch. The usage of aposomatic (bright, apo- = Greek, "revealing" soma = "body") coloration warns predator that its body is distasteful. Its tubefeet could secrete clouds of sticky mucus, ejected if handled. Got the inspiration from Sea Apples (Pseudocolochirus violaceus) and Cushion Sea Star (Culcita novaeguinae)

• Arciris = (arch + iris, "rainbow") clearly analogous to earth angelfish/batfish. Its fin projection trisected on the rear of the body. Its scales are beautifully iridescent, and they don't hide from predator by hiding in crevices like average reef-dwelling fishes - they cruise the water around the reef; their size renders them immune to predation (1.8 metres tall). At their breeding season, males would compete with the others to create the most successful display, the most beautiful one.

• Ocellia = (ocellus = "eye") is a raw copy of a butterflyfish...-_-(perhaps not really that identical, but still, being quite obvious). They possess two large, eye-like patterns on the middle of their body, one at each side of the body. Usually, an eyespot would be situated at the edge of the fin (so predators can't inflict serious damage to the vital part - eye, only to the fin), but in this case, the eyespot is fairly resistant to damage as it is made of a collection of bony plates. The cephalic part of the fish is colored black to prevent predators from targeting the real eye, thus protecting it. The bony protrusion along its fins could serve as powerful hooks to prevent the fish being coaxed out from the reef when hiding.

• all of the creatures inhabit the Vulcanesian Sea, an area analogous to the Indo-Pacific Area (seas around Southeast Asia and Oceania, also east coast of Africa) in our world. The Vulcanesian Sea is the richest marine tropical ecosystem in the planet. (Adjacent to the coral reefs and atolls, are large swabs of islands, covered with forest with fauna and flora unique to their own; dominated mostly by palms and terrestrial molluscs)

Any comments and critics would be appreciated .