Giant Squid Love

A friend was preparing a giant squid themed suite of birthday presents for his boyfriend (some people, eh?). He asked me to draw a cute giant squid to feature on a T-shirt and gift tags etc.

Giant squid are really interesting, but it’s hard to find good pictures of them because they’re generally very deep underwater or, you know, all dead and stuff. I worked with several different reference sources for this rendition, which has the anatomically correct number of arms and tentacles, and the size of the eye is only slightly exaggerated. I enjoyed making it extra shiny to express the wetness, even though wet things aren’t shiny when they’re under water!