I didn’t wake up one morning planning to draw a deep sea amusement park. The idea came quietly, almost shyly, the way memories sometimes do in early spring. I was thinking about birthdays from my own childhood and how they felt less like events and more like moments where the…
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A Spring Deep Sea Birthday Amusement Park Where Kids Celebrate Among Mermaid Friends and Ocean Rides
I didn’t start this illustration because I needed another birthday image on my site. I started it because, one quiet early spring morning, I caught myself thinking about how birthdays felt when I was a kid—how they weren’t really about the cake, or the candles, or even the gifts. They…

