Anoxia

Razor-finned Muskfish
This species is named for the claw-like fins and it's strong smell, which it uses for communication in the murky waters where it lives. It's barbels are extremely sensitive to touch and are the fishes main way of finding food. The two larger ones on the sides of it's head are also covered in chemoreceptors, and can "taste" the waters around them.
Although they do reseble lobe-finned fishes, muskfish are actually placoderms.

Full bio coming later on.

The creature I was livestreaming. Basically it started out as me combining a candiru (a parasitic amazonian fish) and a giant coconut crab (rather self explanitory), then since it looked like a shrimp I stuck a Dunkleosteus head on it and added some barbels and this was the result.

As my first real attempt at using gimp I'm rather pleased with it, plus I've now got another way to do lineart, which is good. *BloodLust-Carman's been encouraging me to develop a semi-realism style for a while and I think I just found it

I'm thinking of making some more monsters like this, since I really enjoyed that part of it. If you think that's a good idea or have any interesting creatures that I could use let me know. Or if you think I should make adoptables of this species, that would be a good thing to tell me too.

Critique would be much loved, as would any feedback.