Sharktober 2023 #1: Fairytale Shark

 

Let's see if you can guess the Fairy Tales and the sharks!

1) Mako shark

2) Lemon Shark

3) Oceanic whitetip

4) Tiger shark

5) Blue shark

6) Thresher shark

7) Sleeper shark

8) Pinocchio catshark Apristurus australis (I only just found out such a shark existed!)

9) Bonnethead shark

10) Silky shark

11) White shark

12) Dwarf lantern sharks

13) Dwarf catsharks

14) Dwarf gulper shark

What you see is what you get

A friend gave me this idea - based on the cat looking in a mirror and seeing a lion/tiger. 

 

364 Sharks of Christmas

I didn't have time to do a Christmas sketch sooner and I was trying to doodle something when I got the idea for the 12 days of Christmas. I didn't get to finish the rough drawings but somehow managed to do all these in about 4 days. I cheated on a couple of them by using old drawings. It's feeling lesser and lesser like Christmas every year around the holiday season - probably because it's getting more commercial, probably because it isn't being encouraged as much in some parts of the world (being a religious holiday) or probably because a lot of people have gotten too cynical to be inspired by the Hope & Joy this season is supposed to bring.
It's times like this that I wish the world could step back a bit and bring back the simple joys of the season - homemade goodies without the stress of them being perfect, thoughtful gifts without a zillion options including the option to return them,  fellowship at church in the morning and peaceful evenings with family. Well, perhaps we'll enjoy some sharks and remind ourselves that Christmas is about this world being loved in the best way possible.


I don't want to type the entire song for each day so I'll break the twelfth day down.

On the Twelfth day of Christmas my true love gave to me:

Twelve Hammers drumming

Eleven Spinners spinning

Ten Leopards leaping

Nine Lemons dancing

Eight Makos sledding

Seven Saws a swimming

Six Epaulettes Walking

Five Rays that Sting

Four Cookiecutters

Three Quagga cats

Two Birdbeak dogfish

And a Porbeagle in a pear tree

ThunderCatsharks!

It's the 29th of February! Since it's a date that only comes around every four years, I wanted to do a special cartoon today. Drawing the Shark Alphabet allowed me to learn about many new shark species. There are quite a lot of unique sharks of which catsharks are several. That gave me the idea. I was also a big ThunderCats fan while growing up. This is actually my second tribute to them.

Catsharks used as reference: Leopard catshark, Graceful catshark, Crying Izak catshark, Tiger catshark, Dwarf catshark and Southern Sawtail catshark