Smaugust 2 - Gorgonian Wrapper Auk Seadragon
Last month I asked people to send me some of their favorite animals/plants/minerals. I'm now dragonizing the items on that list for Smaugust art prompts, attempting to draw one a day through the entire month.
Two suggestions from two different people - the Gorgonian Wrapper and Great Auk. After seeing how Gorgonian Wrapper anemomes latch onto, well, gorgonians, I thought it might be interesting to design a seadragon with an anemone-like dorsal ridge. The stinging dorsal ridge on this pelagic hunter deters kleptoparasitic aerial ocean hunters from stealing its prey.












