Talita

a drawing of some tentacle-shaped creature with pale skin similar to that of a human, an eye at the tip of an antena, a serrated tongue, a limb on its side and another limb coming from a non-seen point below the image. it's possible to notice an accordion-like skeletal structure under the whole body. she wears a pink strawberry-themed shirt, carries a beige purse and she has a human wig, gloves and mask, through the eyeholes of which one can see her real eye and tongue. she seems shocked, covering her mouth with a hand.

i made her because one day i felt like making a clearly non-human character. i based her pose on one by an avatar of a pretty good linguistics youtuber called Babelingua.

there's not really any lore behind her. she's pictured here looking nervous because she was just chilling and suddenly someone showed up, that's why you can see some of her tongue through the wrong hole of her mask. the background is just something i thought would look pretty.

i admit she's a bit based on myself, and, in retrospective, now that it's been 8 months i've done this picture, i think i made her as sort of a reflection on my expectations and anxieties just before starting uni.