Silly me - Gerald is actually the name of the worm in some earlier doodles I did. I think this fellow is called Dennis.

This is a doodle done to test a newly cleaned 9556 nib, I'd intended to practice the tentacles only, for another silly idea I had, and got carried away. You can probably tell, as the tentacles are mostly echoes of the first (rightmost). If I'd stuck to my original idea, I'd have worked out some different arrangements and poses for them.

The paper is a cheap "Boldmere" sketchbook, the ink is Monteverde Burgundy. I like the colour of the Monteverde a lot (more red in it than you see here) although it writes quite dry - I'm also pleasantly surprised by the variation in the 9556 nib.

EDIT: The original is about A6 size - blowing him up has done him no favours