Faculty of Design
Illustration
David Zhixuan Zhang
Praying Mantis
Illustration
2023
The praying mantis is a master of camouflage and ambushing its prey at blinding speeds. This illustration depicts the creature as a shinobi making his move on an unsuspecting target, springing from his spot of hiding in the blink of an eye.
Work by
David Zhixuan Zhang aka. VIATHINE
“"The Slaughtering Swarm" is a project that explores a variety of arthropods and the unusual survival mechanisms they employ to kill, drawing comparisons between these actions to human behaviours and...” [More]
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