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:

  1. 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!

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  2. beautiful colors and textures
    THanks for visiting me

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

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  4. Beautiful, I like your very own style.

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  5. Thanks for the entertaining observations!

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  6. hahahah, Excellent, as usual!

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  7. That is hilarious! great art too :)

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  8. 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'

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  9. Funny, love pseudo-academic explanation.

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  10. Beautiful drawing! lovely work =)

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  11. Hilarious!! And oh so clever!

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

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

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  14. 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...

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

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  16. This is quite clever and educational! Very nice work!

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

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

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  19. This is so good on so many levels.

    Excellent job!

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  20. Lol! The textures and colors are wonderful!

    http://indigeneart.com

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  21. Beautiful illo and lovely style:)

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  22. 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.

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  23. That is a scream.

    And no lie: word verification is "tasto"

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