Comments on: Goldfish http://blackunicorn.org/2005/03/08/goldfish/ doodles, drawings, shirts and thoughts by Veronica Guzzardi Wed, 19 Nov 2008 04:14:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Anonymous http://blackunicorn.org/2005/03/08/goldfish/#comment-14 Anonymous Thu, 24 Mar 2005 06:05:00 +0000 http://blackunicorn.org/?p=9#comment-14 I was hiking at Point Lobos State Reserve this weekend and an image came to me: hamster and rattlesnake -- merged. So, uh, a rattleham, hamrattle, or rattlester. You know how venomous snakes have huge cheeks? Well, when a hamster hoards the food that it finds, its cheeks also get big. What if a hamster was venomous, too? And it had a little rattle for a tail instead of a stubby pinky? It's incisors would be sharp as needles and its black eyes would be all filmy like a typical snakes. Yeah... that'd be cool.<br/><br/>If your goldfish had a text-bubble, it would belong in a comic book. The colors and texture has that feel to it. How'd you do that? I was hiking at Point Lobos State Reserve this weekend and an image came to me: hamster and rattlesnake — merged. So, uh, a rattleham, hamrattle, or rattlester. You know how venomous snakes have huge cheeks? Well, when a hamster hoards the food that it finds, its cheeks also get big. What if a hamster was venomous, too? And it had a little rattle for a tail instead of a stubby pinky? It’s incisors would be sharp as needles and its black eyes would be all filmy like a typical snakes. Yeah… that’d be cool.

If your goldfish had a text-bubble, it would belong in a comic book. The colors and texture has that feel to it. How’d you do that?

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