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Purple-Striped Jellyfish

Purple-Striped Jellyfish line art illustration (click image to enlarge)

Purple-Striped Jellyfish full color illustration (click image to enlarge)

Artist's notes:

The Purple-Striped Jellyfish was completed on 2/4/2009. I had received a few requests to draw a jelly (and had done so before for the Field Guide to Ocean Animals) but this was the first time I could draw a species that I was interested in and one I thought would make a strong image. The problem was figuring out how to illustrate a translucent animal using a black medium. The solution was to simply be very light in my use of the animal suggesting form with stipple rather than simply defining it with a hard outline. The drawing is based on a photo by Piotr Poznanski

Information about the Purple-Striped Jellyfish:

The Purple-Striped Jellyfish are members of the costal plankton community. They possess very potent stingers and can inflict a painful sting. The Purple-Striped Jellyfish serves as temporary homes for young crabs and at least one species of fish; the medusa fish. Despite the name the jellyfish is not actually a fish but an invertebrate. They belonging to the coral and sea anemones family. Jellyfish are about 95% water and do not have ears, eyes, bones, a heart, or a brain.