Currently on a break after a decade of 365.
**Woefully bad at commenting :(**
A picture-a-day rather than a photo-a-day project, which probably came to a close...
Out of curiosity, do you have to come up with every detail? Ever wave and curve of the tentacles, the size and even-ness, or lack thereof of the suckers? The intricacies are kinda mind boggling!
@northy Each tentacle is made from a tube object - basically like a Photoshop pen tool bezier curve. You can control the radius & curve of the tube when you add it into the scene before you 'validate' it and those things become baked into the mesh. Each sucker is placed using an alpha I purposely made - which is like creating a b&w brush in Photoshop. Same for the little bumps. It looks more detailed than it is. ;)
Stamp brush and Tube tool are the ones I mostly used here.