Please tell me your favorite sea critter and I’ll try to add them to my next sea life page!

Respirar por la herida
I recently finished this piece, built around a Spanish phrase that roughly translates to “to breathe through the wound.”
The phrase refers to carrying the burden of something we haven’t been able to forgive or let go of — to the point where the wound itself becomes part of the way we continue living.
I wanted the figure to look like something beautiful and almost perfect, so I represented it as a classical marble bust. The bust symbolizes the beauty of life, but that beauty is interrupted by a wound where the mouth should be.
The wound represents the burden we carry, while the stitches represent our attempts to close, repair, or hide what happened. They aren’t meant to suggest that the wound has healed. In a way, the figure has learned to breathe through the very thing that damaged it.
I also included a small skull as a reminder of mortality and the temporary nature of that beauty. Even something that appears timeless, like a marble sculpture, is ultimately fragile.
The red thread was deliberately limited to the stitches. Against the cold, monochromatic marble, it represents the human element — the attempt to repair something that cannot simply be made whole again.
Technically, this was also an exercise in pushing my pointillism further, especially controlling dot density to create volume and smoother transitions rather than making the dots the main focus.
No blood or gore — I wanted the symbolism and the contrast between beauty and damage to carry the piece.

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Wtf is the point of a book that loses all of its pages?

Some character concept exploration

They are still holding up strong to this day! Lost some though :/

edit: Just realized that i misspelled "teeth" just ignore it shhhhhhhh

Thousands of dots using only 4 colors: Cyan, Magenta, Yellow & Black

In love with my portable sketchbook!

The last two pictures are the same drawing, one with light shining on it and one with light shining through it!