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cephalopod

Squidmas Creeps and Cephalopod Awareness Days

1 October 2009

Pencil sketch of my Gill-Man, a fish-headed man half emerged from the water. [150x150, 12K]Cephalopod Awareness will be a three day event here at Cephalopodcast HQ. October 8 is Octopus Day; October 9 is Nautilus Night and October 10th is Squid Day. Help us celebrate!

Octopus Lady Photoshoppery

1 September 2009

Octopus-Lady from Creative Photoshop CS4. Image ©2009 Derek Lea
I’ve recently started working with Adobe CS4 and the Octopus Lady on the cover of a new Photoshop tutorial book caught my eye.

Dumpoképus

28 April 2009

I was doodling around in Illustrator last weekend and this little character popped up from the anchor points. She is a deep-sea cephalopod called the Dumbo Octopus (Grimpoteuthis sp.). Some species are found 300-400 meters down (or more). They get there common name from their two flapping fins, which some people believe resemble the volitant [...]