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[WIP] Mantis shrimp
🕑 Added 2025-07-10 04:26:11 +0000 UTCRelated post : [wallpapers] Mantis shrimp
I drew a Mantis shrimp, which came in second place after the crow in the last popularity poll!
Animal Drawing and Popularity Poll 2
If you look at the WIP gif, you may have noticed that it was done in a slightly different way than my recent work. This is the way I drew it a few years ago. For a while, I cleaned up the lines perfectly and started working. This feels a little less planned and more spontaneous.
The most well-known features of the Mantis shrimp are their amazing eyesight and strong punching power.
I had some trouble figuring out how to draw the eyes.
If I had drawn them more realistically, they would have been drawn like this π
I thought their bright, big eyes and small dots were cute.
So I thought, what if I drew them like this....
But if I drew just one mantis shrimp, it would have been okay, but since I drew several in one frame, it might have been a bit scary to people if I drew ten mantis shrimps all like this.
In times like this, it becomes easier to decide on the answer if I think about what message I was trying to convey with the drawing.
Rather than drawing realistically, my goal is to approach the public in a friendly way, so I ended up modifying it in a cartoonish way :D
I only knew about the most famous peacock mantis shrimp and a few others, but there were many more species than I thought.
There are over 520 species of mantis shrimp. The leopard mantis shrimp is a relatively recently discovered species. The shape of the claws also varies. So I drew them a little differently. Wikipedia has more details. If you're curious, read on!
By the way, I got a call from the factory yesterday saying that the Crabby crab pins were shipped. When I get them, I'll take pictures and post! So we should be able to see actual pin samples soon :D The secret shop will also open soon!
Thank you!
![[WIP] Mantis shrimp](https://img10.patrefans.com/storage/12/eh/zy/563145-019e8c3a-29f0-79b7-9a79-b2b121a84624.gif)
Comments
pikaole
Thank you so much! I think I only made circle stickers for shrimp. Some of my shrimp stickers are uploaded on redbubble. The sticker types I made patreon can't be made if the lines are too thin, so I can't express the shrimp's antennae π’
Kiesa
I absolutely love these!!! So adorable, I really hope to see some of these make it into pin form one day, especially the common, peacock & hanasyako. Also I'm curious have you ever created shrimp sticker sheets in the past, I recently realized I need shrimp stickers lol.
pikaole
Yeah I know what you mean, I really like their original unique eyes too. Pretty and magical eyes π β¨ If I had only drawn one or fewer, I would have drawn it like this π
Rhee
I think it would have been nice to be stared upon by the normal eyes of the mantis shrimp! However I may be bias as I fursuit a peacock mantis shrimp, my suit has the best eyes
