I have a bit of an obsession with Jellyfish. I believe they are quite astounding creatures. Their physical structure is so fragile a since it mostly just a membrane. They don't have any kind of a brain, respiratory system and no digestive system. That membrane does all of this for them. They breath through it, absorb the nutrients they need and their nervous system is made up of a net of nerves that run through that membrane which has only the basic of functions: it detects the presence of other creatures, simple direction and light. And there are close to 2,000 different kinds of Jellyfish. The most poisonous one is so tiny it is almost microscopic to our eyes. They inject venom into their prey/ victims through a sting. They use their tentacles similar to how we would use either a whip or a lance to stab their victim thus injecting the venom. By many cultures they are considered to be invaders and if even one jellyfish is caught in a net while fisherman are out collecting their catch they entire net has to be thrown back into the ocean because the fish are considered contaminated. Yet some Asian cultures eat these creatures as special culinary dishes. I always pictured these creatures as being quite Alien like, possibly one of the true invaders of the planet.
Thus here in this piece I took the approach of the Portuguese Man of War a huge dominating creature of the ocean to be able to survive in any environment and pose a threat to those around it.
This piece was done in a method called pointillism or stippling as some know it. It is all ink done with copic markers on bristol paper.
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