I’m starting to work out the specific physiology of the Crescent symbiont in the Crescent/Frond symbiote project that I’m doing for Almost Real.
Its gills look like eyes, its eyes look like mouths, its mouth looks like genitals, and its genitals are in its gills.
Continue reading “Almost Real Symbiote, Sketch 3”The Crescent/Frond symbiote I’m working on for Almost Real, here in some greater detail as the design develops.
Continue reading “Almost Real Symbiote, Study 2”This month, I started work on a piece for issue 3 of Almost Real, the biannual speculative biology zine. The theme through the issue is undersea creatures, so even though I’d wanted to work on previous issues and hadn’t really been able to, this one made me sweat. And then they shared the assignment list.
One of the available assignments was symbiosis. So I started falling all over myself to do it, and now I am! And I’m really happy about it. There are going to be a few developmental sketches before it comes together, with the final appearing first in the magazine, itself.
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