fascinating... alot comes to mind looking at this. One, I like how you applied the fish head and guts and such in a mellow way: not too gory nor censored... it allows you to focus on the picture as a whole and not put all your attention on the fish bits. The work itself is clean, realistic, well proportioned, and colorful, and your shading makes the textures really pop out.

Also... Cuttlefish are moody? That's interesting to learn about them: I myself find them to be rather cute, but was never able to interact with one to see how they actually behave... I think you're rather lucky for that. I've also never seen them eat before, so this is interesting as well: I take it they snag things with those longer tents there? (he does look a bit moody doesn't he?)

Also, yeah, from the sounds of it your friend just wants to trade interests with you: she shows you her "art" and you show her yours... I bet she'd give you a sea critter if she thought it was for the best... all in all, it sounds like a fun adventure.

lastly... "SCANNERS EAT ART!!!" *laughs* amen. thats why I scan my rough pencilwork, then do all the inking and coloring digitally... at least until I can afford some sort of uber-scanner that allows me to transfer the full soul of traditional media... but yeah, you're not alone there:p

I love cuttlefish and well done art, so I will have to favorite this:) thanks for sharing!

Lol yesh fishheads not stealing the show this time

I guess moody wasn't the word I was looking for? Like, they can have very expressive moods the show in their behaviour and colours and such, I think that makes them cute as well. But I'm neither native to english or a seacreature like you so what do I know lol. I haven't had the chance to study them closely, but they're some great videos on youtube. I think they can extend those two bigger tentacles to grab something yesh

I have never seen a drawing of a cuttlefish before :o

glad I could be your first :D

Very pretty. Heh. He almost looks like he's flying in the clouds with those light puffy corals.

Cuttlefish are moody.

This looks really good here. I saw a wild one in Morocco...we caught it while bottom fishing. It hissed and squirted ink at us.

aw poor thing

Yeah. It was pretty mad about being caught. Filled up the bucket with ink and scared us all.

Yaay, cuttlefish!

One of my favourite things to find when diving on the coast here. (Well - those any happy happy bull-nosed rays). The always look as if they are harbouring a mighty secret...

lol yesh they do, mysterious little things

Beautiful!

I liked my first experience with one it kept turning colors when I went to touch the glass. <3

I hear those things like eat everything and anything. even their own kind. and that is why i have a fear of water I can't see into. No deep sea diving for me.

Search YouTube for cuttlefish eats octopus and you'll find a vid of a cuttlefish making a meal of a small cephalopod

yesh they really catch just about anyhting, but you're a little too big for them silly. Also I believe they don't live outside clear waters

Nu uh! if its a big enough group they'll take bites out of me one at a time... that happened to a cuddle fisher. His boat capsized and it started a feeding frenzy on him. by the time they got to the body there wasn't enough left to give a positive identification without dna.
Now that's the stuff right out of horror movies. *shudders and clings to her bear* They are also spreading that is why they are such a threat to marine life.
They are like the humans of the sea. Eating anything they can get their tentacles on. *nods* I wonder if they would make good calimari. Cause I'd so do that ya know to help save the sea I mean

And I Learn-ed all this Via Discovery channel :D I luvs you Discover Channel *Hugs and noms* .... Syrup?

Yup, thas right. Ah've seen em. Big as a man, twice as ugly! Swaller ya whole, they will.

wellll if he was fishing for them he must have been fair game then lol

Cuttlefish may be moody, but they're the cutest motherfu**ers in the sea.

You've taken one of the things that used to scare the ever loving shit out of me as a kid and made it into a cute painting. I'm not sure whether I should be angry or relieved... I guess I'll go with the neutral "Impressed."

How did I make it cute? lol this is what they look like!! And how could you be so scared of a little cuttlefeesh?

I might be mixing up the two, but there's a kind of fish that looks like that that turns black and constantly fluxuates colors. And of course, the first time I saw them it was on a nature program who covered them for about a minute and a half up close where the tentacles could scrape over the camera.

lol yesh sounds like them

It was the scariest thing I'd ever heard until the news came out Micheal Bay would be making another Transformers movie...

omg, that is so adorable! I love cuttlefish <3

Not really my kinda thing... but... omg, cuttlefish! Drawn by Foshu! 's so gewd n.n well done, loove, well done... as usual! gawd, one of these days you'll come out with a peice of art that isn't spectacular, and I will probably fall over with shock.

I wish I felt the same

*laughs and flicks your nose* Fine. one of these days you'll post a piece of art, on FA, that is less than stellar. Then, I'll fall over with shock. mkay?

wow. the first thing that pops into my head when i see this is the 'creation of adam' i dont know why but it does.

love it!! its awesome.

You're not the only one to say that O.o

haha, awesome

Cute^^

Cuttlefish are savage. Bloody molluscs.

I guess I shouldn't commission you then. <.<;; All my purchased arts are hidden under my bed.

4 years from now they're not

Er... what?

you won't have to hide them under your bed anymore 4 years from now

...some of 'em I purchased four years ago. =P I'm not sure why four years makes any difference.

Also, apologies that I don't get the joke.

oh no it's on me lol

Why are you keeping them under your bed?

Safest place. I have this big plastic container, so they won't be exposed to humidity or anything.

Still think I should frame 'em, though some I know my parents would tease me about.

Have you ever cuddled a cuddle fish? Not very cuddly...

I despise my spelling

apparently you draw animals, (all kind) very neatly

I try <3

cuttlefish like other high end mollusks are very smart and expressive its very well depicted in your art