Moving onto the A4 sketchpad, this piece breaks away from standard wildlife illustration to explore a dark, surrealist concept. It features a bold, five-pointed star framing a hyper-detailed, grimacing mouth that exposes a tightly packed set of human teeth.

The stark geometric framing forces the focus entirely onto the organic, shadows within the open mouth

Hand-inked on an A4 page with a 0.1 fine-liner. I used dense, pure black pooling at the tips of the star points, letting the ink break into micro-stippling as it moves inward toward the central subject.

The skin of the lips is rendered with hundreds of tiny wrinkles and creases to give them a dry, stretched appearance. This deep, textured stippling heavily contrasts against the smooth, unshaded surfaces of the teeth, using negative paper space to make the smile pop with an eerie intensity.

This piece adds a fantastic, experimental edge to the studio archive. It proves how stippling can take an isolated, everyday anatomical feature, wrap it in sharp geometric line-work, and transform it into a piece of surrealist art.

Not too sure who originally made this design but you search stipple art on Pinterest and this comes up, its perfect if you want to practice stippling