A translucent crustacean rendered in shades of coral, teal, and soft blue floats against a deep black ground, its delicate appendages and segmented body captured with scientific precision and graceful linework. The creature glows with an ethereal quality, its internal structures suggested through layered color and careful shading that suggests both biological accuracy and dreamlike wonder. Bound with 52 pages of 70lb paper, lined or unlined, behind an anti-scuff matte cover with wraparound artwork, made to order. Notes and sketches kept behind an independent artist's work, not a plain composition cover.