Shark Week continues on. Today, say hello to the Velvet Belly Latern Shark. Again, this is for Again, this is for devlexuswolf's Shark Week Sketch Jam on DA, which means stop requesting sharks I do next please and thank you.

While looking for refs, I first saw this and thought "aw, cute li'l guys, aren't they?" I then later stumbled upon THIS and was like "JESUS CHRIST, HOW HORRIFYING". I decided to go for a creepy angle, which is funny because these things are totally harmless and hardly longer than a foot. Not sure how well I did with this one but... enjoy?

The Velvet Belly is a type of deep sea dogfish and, like other lantern sharks, is bio-luminescent. It has light-emitting photophores that form a species-specific pattern over its flanks and abdomen that are thought to function in counter-illumination, which camouflages the shark against predators.

Go to DISCOVERY.COM/SAVETHESHARKS for more facts and information.

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Drawn with Paint Tool SAI
Textures & editing done in CS4