Squalus griffini

I think the only reason I chose to draw this animal was because there was an interesting gap in the Wikipedia sea, and I couldn't resist. Unfortunately, I'd made some major mistakes with the coloring (older versions had a rather extravagant blue), so I got discouraged and abandoned it  ╮ (. ❛ ᴗ ❛.) ╭

It wasn't until recently that I regained the motivation to pick it up again. Perhaps influenced by that "someone," you might find more context o̶̮͛́ņ̷͚̓̎ ̶̲̜̅̈ṡ̴͈̘̓o̷̻̓̔m̶̠̯̌̈e̵̡̝̔͆ ̵̺̻̔v̸̥̮͚̍͝î̶̘d̴̤̪̻̀e̴̜͖͓͗͂o̸̬̒ ̴̪͋͜p̵̨͔̤͂̍l̶̮̙̤͛à̸͕͙͍̿t̵̮̥̣̋̃f̵̪̲̏͗ͅo̶̡̹̐̓̂ŗ̵̌͆m̵̜̆̈́.

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The species presented here has several names. For this drawing, I believe I based it on the photographs of: NMNZ P.039893 in Museum of New Zealand (Bray D. J., Fishes of Australia 2018); and Duffy C. (Fish Base s.f., that would imply that the specimen I drew is a male).

Histioteuthis meleagroteuthis

One of the squids that’s pissed me off the most to draw, by far. I had one version done, then realized the color might be off, but I decided to just fix those weird fins it has on its head and the little bumps all over its body (which, by the way, are nipple-shaped. I repeat, they are NIPPLE-SHAPED; they just look like diamonds in the drawing because of the top-down perspective). I’m writing this right now because I seriously just want to post the drawing already. If I keep putting it off, I’m going to give myself a damn aneurysm.

I used these two photographs as a reference for this drawing, in case you want to check them out: Umut Ayoğlu 2025 and Vladimir @laptikhovsky 2018.