I’d just read Kafka’s Metamorphosis when I started this one and this image, or at least this idea, was already floating in my head pretty much fully formed. I think I see it as some kind of tragic exit but with a kind of cosmic dream like quality – as if this is the escape that Samsa would have wanted. A bunch of blending brushes layered together on this one, with the same palette used on the beetle and a bit of work on directional lighting and sheen on the carapace.

This is part of my regular drawings series that you can get at on my buymeacoffee.