Sea Art!

A bunch of art I made for my uncle a few months ago about what will happen to coasts with rising sea levels and over fishing, and how to successfully manage that.

A year of animals

For Christmas, I made my family calendars. Given that my family is made of pet owners, vegetarians, biologists, and oceanographers, I created animal-themed calendars. One for every month. In time for...mid-February, here are all twelve images, in order.January. At least someone got snow.

February: the month where everyone wants to sleep in.
March: the month that, like it or not, everyone associates with the color green because of Irish fairies.
April is rainy. I ripped this off of Peter de Seve. No one does animals better.
May: Oh yes, my family also avidly gardens.
June: Everyone travels to somewhere else on vacation, and annoys the people who live there and aren't on vacation.
July: a cat and an Indian elephant for the Indian guy who likes cats.
August: the dog days of summer. The terrified days of fish.
September: some people like ants. Ants are hard to draw.
October: putting on fat for the winter.
November is fun, even for vegetarians.

December: it's very cold and dark, and it makes people sing.

Double

Illustration Friday topic: double. I was too tired this week to be clever, so I'll just have to settle for being pleasant and diverting.

Love Shark Baby, Yeah

The main players in my shark animation. We have a black-tip reef shark, a white tip reef shark, a nurse shark, a parrotfish, and a red grouper.

What happens is the parrotfish eat the algae, the groupers eat the parrotfish, and the sharks eat the groupers. If sharks are over-fished, the groupers will devour all of the parrotfish and algae will choke the reef. And as anyone who has a swimming pool knows, algae blooms are disgusting.

Reef Madness

These are for an animation I'm doing for a client, on the effects of sharks on coral reef systems. That's a healthy reef on top, and a toxic reef on the bottom, along with some of the critters that live there. I'll post more on this project as it comes along.