Friday 5 December 2008

Illustration Friday - Similar

Some organisms have developed a defence whereby they openly display a warning signal to POTENTIAL PREDATORS!!! This sub-species of herring is a good example:



This is so effective that similar organisms will try to imitate the characteristics of the first one to come up with such a jolly good wheeze! This sub-sub-species of herring is doing his best:



In truth, both these fish are very rare, their survival depending as it does on a certain level of literacy in their predators.

30 comments:

Fabián Fucci said...

HWAAAAAHWAHWAAAA, awesome! I love the use of textures in your artwork, they look not only cute, but within the reach of our everyday experience, too! Good job!

Amy C said...

beautiful colors and textures
THanks for visiting me

Bill Ross said...

You are one hilarious person! And you illustrate quite nicely as well.

Tomás Serrano said...

Beautiful, I like your very own style.

Gallery Juana said...

Thanks for the entertaining observations!

Juan said...

hahahah, Excellent, as usual!

Roberta said...

Hee hee..love it!

Dot said...

That is hilarious! great art too :)

Catherine Hayward said...

Haha! Excellent.
This puts me in mind of the Discworld species of walnut that has inscribed in small lettering on the shell 'may contain nut'

ValGalArt said...

Hilarious and wonderful! :)

ArtSparker said...

Funny, love pseudo-academic explanation.

Alice said...

Great ^^

Alina Chau said...

HE! HE!! Funny!

flower girl said...

Beautiful drawing! lovely work =)

Teri C said...

Hilarious!! And oh so clever!

Bella Sinclair said...

That was much more entertaining and informative than an episode of National Geographic! Loved it!

Chris Kennett said...

Great job!

Tessa said...

Those wonderful illos made me laugh out loud! Fabulous...and a very clever take on the topic.

Matthew A said...

This is awesome! hahahahahaha lol whichever you like better. The illustrations alone are hilarious, and then you read the text, and it's gut wrenching.

question, do they swim in schools, and sometimes create threatening sentences? That would make me happy, not the threatening part, the sentence making part...

Vanessa Brantley Newton said...

How refreshing and cool! The texture is beautiful. I really like the color palette you used. Very nice play on the word too.

messyfish said...

I love your style

Edrian Thomidis said...

This is quite clever and educational! Very nice work!

Paul Chokran said...

When I first read this, I thought it said "Some orgasms have developed ...."

lil kim said...

LOL! that's hilarious. love your style too.

j.dávila said...

This is so good on so many levels.

Excellent job!

INDIGENE said...

Lol! The textures and colors are wonderful!

http://indigeneart.com

yoon see said...

Beautiful illo and lovely style:)

Ces said...

Kathy, it's been a while since my last visit and I am glad I did today. This post is hilarious and brought a silent laugh this early morning.

Rrramone said...

That is a scream.

And no lie: word verification is "tasto"

Ellen said...

Fabulous work as always!!