Sharktober: Shark Band

 As you know, I've done several shark bands over the years: Blues band, Rock Band and Country Band. Instead of a simple repost, I decided to update them. The country band has probably gone through the most change with the Opry tribute background. 

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. 

 

Shark Week 2020!

 Shark Week doesn't really air in India the same time as the rest of the world. At first it bothered me that I couldn't take part in all the fun. And then I was educated enlightened by Dr.David Shiffman a couple of years ago and now I find the de-sensationalising of Shark Week even more fun. 

However, I do find their episode titles rather exciting (as intended) and I enjoyed drawing my take on the titles. Here are the ones from 2017 and 2016.  This year's titles attempt to be intriguing but it loses its hook once you realise that it's just some over-hyped shark drama below the surface. 

Anyway, I thought I'd choose some of the titles from this year's lineup. 

1. Air Jaws: Ultimate Breach off  (10th Aug)

2. Jaws awakens (11th August)

3. Extinct or Alive: Land of the Lost Sharks (12th August)

I heard that a few diverse sharks were featured in this episode including the Whitetip Weasel Shark (Paragaleus leucolomatus), Flapnose Houndshark (Scylliogaleus quecketti) and Blacktip shark (Carcharhinus limbatus). 

Extra: Great White Serial Killer Extinction

I heard there was another episode titled "serial killer" this year. Okay, so it had something to do with sea otters but this title needs to stop being applied to sharks unless it's a super duper fun monster flick. This drawing is from 2017 with a couple of small modifications.

4. Monster under the bridge (13th August)

Monster, it seems. I was gonna go with a Billy goat gruff sort of idea but then this tune suddenly started running through my head and I figured this is even better. 

5. Sharkadelic Summer

I just really wanted to try out some psychedelic backgrounds. 

6. Tiger Shark King

I modified my old tiger shark and tiger drawing to fit this one. Tiger Sharks are hilarious. The tiger is rolling its eyes. 

7. Wicked Sharks

Am I the only one who thought this when I heard that title?

Bonus: Alien Sharks 2020

I modified another one from 2017 with some of the diverse sharks featured this year.

Masters of the Puniverse

Expectation

Reality

Who didn't love He-Man while growing up? I've been wanting to do a real He-Man tribute for a while and finally got around to it. The idea of a Tiger Shark as Cringer/Battle cat just popped into my head and then I had no excuse but to do this. At first it was just the "expectation" one... but then I thought it would be nice to do one similar to my Thor one as well and hence the comic one. Although I couldn't really think of a series yet.

ps - I also didn't want to call this He-Shark because that's just weird.

Sharktivity #20: Tiger shark misses junk food.

Tiger sharks (Galeocerdo cuvier) are those sharks that aren't really picky about what they eat. They have been known to eat license plates and sea birds and turtles... whatever comes their way. They probably miss eating junk food while in lockdown.
They are fairly dangerous so try and keep as much social distancing as possible from them.

Global Tiger Day

I drew this in kind of a hurry so I apologise if my Tiger doesn't look real enough (either the Tiger Tiger or the Tiger Shark). Tigers are one of my favourite animals and it's simply amazing to see them in the wild. I really hope that people would do everything they can to make sure we keep seeing them in the wild for generations to come.
ps - In case you didn't notice, the Tiger couldn't help but roll its eyes.

Shark Week 2016

It's Shark Week again. And again it is not being aired in India at the same time as the rest of the world. But that doesn't stop me from enjoying the week and all things Shark. This year, I thought I'd do something Sharktacular and try and "paint" what out my take on the episode titles. I'm not doing all of them but I'll pick a few that seem exciting (or easy enough) to draw.

 

#1 - Tiger Beach

#2 - Monster Mako

#3 - Jaws of the deep

That big shark is supposed to represent "Deep Blue" (not a Megalodon)

#4 - Air Jaws: Night Stalker (was very excited that there's a team in the US military called Night Stalkers and that they use these Little Bird helicopters. See how much sense it all makes)

#5- Sharks vs Dolphins: Smile off Face off

#6 - Jungle Shark

Let's Shark n' Roll!

This is my third in the shark band series, drawn on request. I was asked to draw a rock band. Like I've said, I'm no musician so if any of the instruments seem off... well, my bad.

Race Sharks

I got the idea of drawing a hammerhead shark designed race car while drawing another sketch and thought it would be fun to do a bunch of shark designs on race cars. But I got bored quite quickly. I guess I shall not be entering the car sticker industry.

Sharks in my living room

Remember my first "Sharks are friends, not food" drawing? I've wanted to do a coloured version of that one since I did the Central Perk one. So here it is.

Sharks are Friends Not Food #2

I wanted to update my previous "Sharks are friends not food" sketch and this time I thought I'd throw in a small tribute to one of my favourite TV shows.

Nightsharks

Here's my rendition of "Nighthawks" by Edward Hopper. This is another painting I saw for the first time at a friend's place. It must be nostalgia month or something. This is also another picture that has been parodied by several people. I haven't seen a Shark one yet though.
I wonder if I should change some of the sharks. I wasn't too sure about the Tiger and Oceanic.
And it's missing the red but I'm not going to make it look as if my shark was bleeding.

Lunch atop a Skyscraper with The Sharks

The first time I came across the famous "Lunch atop a skyscraper" photo was in university when my friend had it in her room. Since then I had seen the Friends cast, Muppets, Hollywood leading men and other versions. So I asked myself, why not a 'Sharks' version?