Media: Pencil sketch painted in Procreate.
Coelacanths are a prehistoric fish that was believed to be extinct by white scientists only to be “rediscovered” by the white scientific community, but the native people of South Africa had been living alongside them peacefully for years with full knowledge of their existence…
I feel like they’re a great animal to represent the queer experience and how society treats us.
Plus I’ve been loving doing typographic stuff lately, even though it’s very unknown territory for me.