Kamidu

A Vish-on in White and Blue

Added 2019-11-21 11:28:44 +0000 UTC

I honestly wasn’t expecting this one to win the poll by such a landslide.

But here we are. I did the best I could, given how Frankenstein-esque the fossil types are this time around. As I understand it, they’re meant to be a reference to hobbyist inaccuracies when it came to prehistoric research in the1800s. Often guesstimating dinosaurs based on what they found, it wasn’t until just before the turn of the 20th Century that palaeontology as we know it now started to form through scientific and technological advances, and ideas got more revised and refined over time.

How do I know this stuff? I used to live not too far away from the “Jurassic Coast” just off Lyme Regis in Dorset, so the name Mary Anning is synonymous with the history of prehistoric sciences. It’s apparently where the tongue-twister “she sells sea-shells by the sea shore” came from, as a young Anning used to sell these “curiosities” as souvenirs before it was later realised that the funny-looking stones and sea-shells were actually fossils. You can still find fossils there today.

Granted, Archibald (as I’m calling him in reference to an Australian portrait prize) looks way too similar to Odagawara, but I’m not exactly a character designer working on Spongebob Squarepants. Maybe I’ll revise him later. Still, enjoy . This was supposed to have gone up last night (Wednesday 20th November) but Painter crashed on me the moment I went to save my progress, so I had to re do the whole background. Sorry about that.

But yes, enjoy! 💙