#Painted mantis shrimp

[critter-creature-or-beast]

Submitted for classification by anonymous.

"can you do the mantis shrimp?"

By Cédric Péneau - The uploader on Wikimedia Commons received this from the author/copyright holder CC BY-SA 4.0

[bonguri]

20240621 NIFREL 4 by Bong Grit Via Flickr: こいつの戦闘力も53万くらい？ Photo taken at NIFREL, Suita city, Osaka pref.

[samimarkart]

painting inspired by my cutwork lace mantis shrimp doiley

[manga-ranga]

Another paint process

Once frame work is done, keep building it up in layers

When you work with acrylic, doesn't matter how messy the layers are as the paint is thick enough to cover anything you don't like

And that's how you make a mantis shrimp!

This one is available as a print in my redbubble shop

[full-time-femboy]

I refuse to fix/add more to this

He/him for Kitty

[i-am-cholera]

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[fablepaint]

doodles from today's twitch stream. Some audience suggestions and a page full of script and monsters.

[aquaspiderart]

There's 25 days left for Spineless Wonders, a collection of stickers and prints with invertebrate animals!! Spread the word and support this project!

[sallllltywater]

Feel sad that the "give me six characters" request (on blue bird) only got malus darkblade so far, i secretly hunting for more characters i haven't draw in warhammer fantasy, or it's time to secretly add characters i like into the chart(?

[saspitite]

found a nice rock on the beach and painted my son. the vicious beast

[starguutz]

I'm getting so close to finishing my fursona (shrimpsona?) Ref....gonna try and think of a name today :3

[crazypossumman]

Honestly one school of thought would hold this entirely true. We know there are species with many more color cones in their eyes than our own, such as the mantis shrimp. So compared to mantis shrimp, we are EXTREMELY color blind. Likely, we’re as colorblind to them as dogs are to us. But we wouldn’t view humans as a “colorblind” species—as we commonly do dogs—due to our limited perspective as a species.

For all we know, a large majority of population are color blind but all have the same variant of color blindness and therefore think that’s normal.

[flinxypie]

@thatmooncake made me do it :U

Peacock Mantis Shrimp Sun

I have a whole backstory on how him and Moonshoe met, okay!

Fun fact: this was supposed to be cell shaded but I keep accidentally painting instead aaaaaaaaa

[foxsnails]

Ahh mantis shrimp, the wizards of the sea

Watercolour painting (+ digital bg) requested on ko-fi (except for the wizard part, I’m going through a wizard phase, you know how it is)

[aticketplz]

たまにパンチする油絵

鳥羽水族館

Mantis shrimp that punch like oil paintings.

Toba Aquarium

[smallgodseries]

[image description: A curious creature stands in a tall grey corridor of arches. A patchwork of bright colors – fluorescent yellows, greens, magentas, teals – they have a button nose, an uneasy smile and look at the viewer through large eyes with tiny black pupils. Text reads, “17-4402, Royal G. Bivouac ~ The Small God of Extra-Spectral Colors”]

They are rare among the small gods in that they have believers among all sighted creatures, large and small, clever and less than clever, and they count their greatest worshippers, not among the humans, but in the depths of the ocean, among the simple, steadfast mantis shrimp.  The mantis shrimp has four times as many visual receptors as a human.  They can see colors mankind cannot even dream of, for we lack the minds to conceive of what we can never see.

Someday, perhaps, science will go too far—as science often does—and find a way to grant someone or something with a human’s capacity to describe the things it experiences the eyesight of the mantis shrimp, and on that day the balance may shift, and Royal may find themself called more clearly to humanity’s aid.  Until then, however, they are content to be a god primarily worshipped by graphic designers and art students who have discovered the joys of psychedelic drugs, as the ones who truly belong to them drift happily along below the ocean waves, lacking the level of consciousness necessary to worship.

Because of this aberration in what many small gods see as the natural order of things, Royal raises many questions theological and otherwise.  If their worshippers are unaware of their existence, are they truly worshipped?  Or are they an inexplicable fold in the fabric of the universe, contradictory and doomed to wink out of existence at any moment?

They honestly don’t seem to care.  They have their mantis shrimp, and their paintings that no one else is able to quite see or understand, and the few humans who appreciate them for the mystery they are, and the beautiful things that they can do.  For them, that has always been enough.

Perhaps it always will be.