🐙🦀👩🏽🏫👩🏽🎨🎊🖌️Good evening. How are you? I am very happy to be able to show you the first part of my recent work, a pencil sketch entitled “In the Depths: The Nine-Armed Octopus and its Prey.” In this work, I highlight the octopus's unique anatomy, giving it nine tentacles, an unusual feature that adds a sense of originality and strength to the painting. I was inspired by a real case known as The Savior Octopus, found in Ibiza, an island in the western Mediterranean Sea. This island is part of the Balearic Islands, east of the Iberian Peninsula, and is famous for its stunning beaches, making it one of the most visited tourist destinations in Europe. This male Octopus vulgaris showed signs of having survived an attack that cost him several limbs. During the regeneration process, one of his arms split and created two separate appendages that, over time, acquired special functions: one for feeding and one for exploration. This painting has an unsettling realism, showing how the octopus clings to the shell of its prey, which adopts a desperate posture, raising its claws in a futile attempt to protect itself from the tentacles that already surround it. Here we see the feast that this extraordinary nine-armed octopus will enjoy.
Autor: Doriannis Marval ().
Título: "En las Profundidades: El Pulpo de Nueve Brazos y su Presa".
Técnica: Lápiz sobre cartulina.
Medidas: 21.50 cm x 27.50 cm.
Noviembre, 2025.
🐙🦀👩🏽🏫👩🏽🎨🎊🖌️The painting presents a meditation on the food chain and the raw beauty of the natural world. In it, you can see and feel the imminent threat facing the crab at the hands of the octopus, capturing the moment just before the predator manages to catch its victim. This represents the conflict between adaptive intelligence (the octopus) and continuous defense (the crab) in an environment that remains unknown to us. The ninth tentacle introduces an extraordinary or mythical aspect to the representation of the natural environment. I have taken several photographs, which I present below as evidence of my work.
🐙🦀👩🏽🏫👩🏽🎨🎊🖌️I appreciate your interest and am confident that you will view this artistic project positively, as it is essential for my family's resources. Soon, you will have the opportunity to see the final illustrated version. Until soon, until a new opportunity arises.
🎨👩🏽🎨Canva for the designs. Redmi 9A phone used to take the photos. Translation from Spanish to English: https://www.deepl.com/es/translator. Writing: https://www.editpad.org/tool/es/paraphrasing-tool.