Concept - Sky Squid

Finished! And, frankly, I'm pretty satisfied. I'm definitely more satisfied than most other concepts I've done recently. I mean, c'mon, people. This is practically professional quality material. Practically -- not quite -- but very nearly. I still have problems with it. For some reason, I have a difficult time shading things and making it look good. You'd think it'd be easy, but I make it look amateury. But! That aside! We're getting close to gold, here, folks. S'right, I said it. And I'm gonna be damn cocky about it, too. That's all.

Using their two pairs of gills, the sky squids intake air, which mixes with the chemical compounds in their lungs to create a more buoyant compound, allowing them to float -- this is the power humans harness when using the squids as an energy source for their sky ships. Mostly peaceful in nature, sky squids feed mostly off of insects and plants; with few predators (other than humans), the squids have little need to defend themselves or get away hastily. In the wild, most squids travel in small family groups, and are often playful and highly communicative, while in captivity, squids are often despondent and almost always eerily silent. Squids are highly intelligent, and have been thought to be able to understand parts of human conversations, although this has yet to be confirmed.