An attempt to build on my pregnancy anxiety mermaid's from 2019. I'll have to work bigger if I wanna pull it off but first time playing with hard pastels. So not a total loss.

Summer 2019 my now ex SO's family and mine kept passively aggressively pushing for me to pop out babies. I didn't realize till looked at the sketches a year later that the desire to break down a female body into a functioning machine to pump out children (everything but the mouth, throat and wombs is mechanical) was probably a subconscious outlet of that. Art is kinda cool like that.