What is this a picture of?

It appears at the beginning of every chapter of the Del James book The Language of Fear. I cant figure out what it is and neither can anyone around me. Its the only picture there.

A bug crawling up a wall?

A dancing cartoonish dreadlocked character.

It looks like a seahorse to me…

A woman wearing a billowing gown, floating up the side of a cliff, playing a lute.

Or a grasshopper.

A moose on a bungee cord.

Looks like a sticker on a windshield, in silhouette, with the horizon of, say, Kansas in the background. Looking out the windshield from inside the car. Sideways.

Looks to me like a bug on a window of an old house. Dark section on the right would be the window frame, and the unevenness is caused by the putty.

S^G

Looks like something drawn on a piece of styrofoam. Whatever it is, it wraps around the corner a bit, ruling out windshields and windows. FWIW, it was taken with a cell phone.

Looks like a poorly taken photo done with a cellphone of a page from a book that doesn’t help anyone because it’s motion blurred and out of focus.

It looks a bit like a Sea Dragon, but it’s hard to make out for sure.

It was taken on a cell phone but thats what it looks like. Its no more detailed in real life.

My first thought was some kind of “tribal” tattoo. But on closer examination it seems to be casting a shadow…or is that the motion blur?

You really should try to take a better picture. The entire picture is out of focus.

prehistoric cave painting of cthulhu?

Theres a new picture up there. look at the one you think is better

I’m going with a bug of some kind. Is there any description you can provide about the rest of the page? The coloring on the two shots differs quite a bit. Any good reason why?

Are all the different versions in the book essentially the same orientation, size, color, etc.?

The only other thing that comes to my mind is that it could be a logo, a monogram, some icon or avatar sort of thing.

It is at the beginnig of every story(its in a book of short stories). Its on the title of every one and right before the story. The colouring is different due to the camera phone, its actually black. They are all the same colour but the size changes depending on if its on a title page or a beginning of a story.

Im truly disappointed no one has read this book.

I think it might be a guy in a rowboat, but it’s too blurry to be sure.
(Rotate image 90° CCW).

OK, after looking some more - it’s definitely a person looking at something in their right hand. I think that they are in a rowboat, because the large paddle-shaped object is a paddle.
The person is wearing a hat, and they have a light shirt under a dark jacket.

Do you have a scanner?