Which I though was pretty cool.

source: https://sdwhalewatch.com/2025/05/may-25-2025/

French firefighters and members of the local Animal Protection League (LPA) creating the conditions to rescue four long-finned pilot whales (Globicephala melas) beached on the shore of Calais.

Inktober Day 12: A quick sketch with a large marker of a small pod of orcas for the Inktober prompt— whale. Probably should’ve switched to the smaller pens earlier. Spectra marker, Pentel brush pen, Daiso brush pen on Canson mixed media.

Splashdown by odontocete

Current GIMP work in progress

The third and last friend of the Sealife commission, the fantastical False killer whale. Another favourite of mine. And another species painted previously, and though this latest version still looks a lot like her predecessors, I luckily still managed to find some new details to include. I've always loved these noodles (seriously, there are some photos that will boggle your mind - black spaghettis flying in the air) and it's always a fun day to draw one. I hope you like her too!

Still, there's a lot of cool variation. Very old males can turn almost completely white (my illustration is quite conservative) with the underlying colouration also bleaching. Females usually have less scars but there's a broad range going from almost clean to being quite pale indeed with many rakes. Some animals develop white faces (with or without stark black markings surrounding the lips). And in some populations the animals just remain quite dark and seem to gather far less, or smaller rakes overall.