Evan Dahm

exquisitebeast:

Seventeen. Pushing it further and weirder: its baleen-trough mouth hangs lower to skim the surface of the water, and the front and back limbs are becoming more like fins… I like the idea of a creature becoming amphibious in the air and the water, so maybe it’s going in that direction a bit!

haven’t been pushing the contrast far enough but I think I did a good job on this one

exquisitebeast:

This is the first beast.

The Exquisite Beast is a project that Yuko Ota and myself, Evan Dahm, are starting. Beginning with this creature drawn by me, we will take turns drawing future creatures, each one representing a visible step in a theoretical evolutionary process. We’ll play with the aesthetic of living things and the process of natural selection, and may or may not end up with a biologically plausible series of beasts.

In the future, Yuko’s monsters will go up on every Friday, and mine will go up on every Tuesday. Thanks for looking!

This is a new project by me and Yuko! Check it out and follow the blog!! It will go weird places!