#Xeno inkfish

[gojinka]

Hmm…. Inklings.

[squid-seraph]

Oh yeah i need a extra month on the year

One extra holiday

Just to kiss you all over your face

[semisentientseafood]

pearl doodle

[zikadraws]

POV : you just complimented two young punks about their ear piercings and they thank you by schooling you to hell and back

-Long story short ; I have a feeling that since they have no visible eardrum hole to actually serve the hearing function, the inkfish "ears" aren't actually their ears, but the humanoid version of their fins ; or more accurately of the floppy bits on their heads from their original species.

So they aren't actually ears, but they're used for fashion, conveying emotions (they can move them more or less consciously, much like a cat), and also and mainly for protecting their actual ears, located behind them, from weather conditions (like wind or sand storms), from direct impact during fighting circumstances, and from currents, like when they swim.

Their headphones are actually always designed to somehow cover the little slits that are their actual ears. (The fins play as mere structural support then.)

...This is a theory of mine that just kinda jumped in my face when thinking about how Inkling ears are completely flat, and even if it isn't going to stop me from drawing their fins like actual ears, it's cool to have an explanation about that design. Hope you like it too 🤗

(Also side note but I love coming up with random Inkfish designs when illustrating this kind of stuff. Enjoy heavily tattooed Inkling guy, blue-ringed Octoling with the toupee tentacut and OctoGirl with lesbian flag-themed tentacut. Happy Pride.) (:

[hiroshotreplica]

completely normal off the hook, mhm

[hadalzonee]

okay i wanted to do an actual drawing too so here’s dedtober day #4 dunno

[palossssssand]

Sploodles(splatoon doodles) of the day: Assorted Jilon and Kinoga and Trito in a xeno inkfish style

[aeriona]

Various inkling studies + one miserable little Atax in the corner

[antzinha]

Inkfish fashion thoughts with a lazy leopard print attempt... I have no idea 100% how or if something like this would work but the thought randomly struck me today and I wanted to doodle it out. I think it would be something fun

[wyverewings]

OH SHIT I need to post my MAR13 art here

I forgot I never posted this on tumblr

[octobobble]

Don’t cry. Stingray cowboys okay

[octofrsh]

xeno designs are so fun :3 he's a caribbean reef squid btw

[semisentientseafood]

cutely realizes I never posted this here even though people like this style of inkfish more on here than twitter

[stupid-puppycat]

finally finished my xeno-inkfish agents qq!! i know they dont look that... creature but ASASDDASJKNDASKJ anyways i loved drawing these i fucking love these type of markings it reminds me when i used to draw a lot more of furry art... <x3c

[flicks-random-stuff]

Look at my argonaut, boy 🫵 and my leech

They only play a modified form of turf war meant for non-inkfish to be able to play both so Louise can participate and so that Argie doesn’t receive unsolicited comments about their shell

Click for higher quality because LORD is some of the text poorly legible once tumblr crunches the image

[hadalzonee]

get ready to get fryed