This work I found today is by an artist named Tim Lord, a freelance illustrator based out of Shrewsbury, UK. From what I observed looking through his portfolio on Hire an Illustrator and on his own personal site, he seems to place a focus on intense detail in his illustrations. This lends itself well to the sort of steampunk-type imagery seen in many of his works, and in creating intricate scenes within portrait-style works.
This art in particular, called Kraken, stuck out to me because I felt the depth of detail in the work when I imagined the sense of scale. The random bits of junk seemingly patched onto a creature so large as to be wearing a ship for a hat seemed novel to me, and the overall appearance of the creature reminded me of some sailor's corpse, with the empty eyes and detritus hanging all over it.
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