Yeah I don't know either about cyber-implants, you would literally carve away your flesh to replace it with machinery. (In Shadowrum you would actually lose essence of your self until you become a cyberzombie, or in Cyberpunk you would eventually become a Cyberpyscho just the same) My fear would be that you would simply lose sensory input in that given area.

The Despair is clearly on display in this artpiece, love how the rain gives this misty aura around her head, but I am not convinced about the droplets on her skin, wouldn't they form teardrops?

Holy jumping Jesus H. CHRIST! Pair up with a writer and make graphic novels.

I'd buy them.

I've wondered if the Ultras in the Revelation Space novel series were ever regretful of their modifications. They generally modified themselves to extremes to be better than any normal human, something of note in a universe where most humans have biological repairs to extend their lives hundreds of years as it is. I can't remember if they tended to be all-white or if I'm just picturing their usual ships, the lighthuggers (near-lightspeed ships). I do remember they often have dreadlocks and grow a new lock for each reefer sleep (interstellar cryostasis), so that fuels my mental image that half of them look like The Twins of the Matrix

It's a cool series. It sets you up with a ton of universe expo. It does not exactly pull it all together.

Re: rain

1. It should fall very rectilinear, there's a certain curvature on it instead.
2. on the body, it should drop always towards the ground and puddle when not in a near vertical surface. If you want to show the path it took, the arms could start in the orientation you drew (longitudinal) but veer off to the side (towards the ground) to highlight the arm movement from the side of the body to the face.
3. It clings more to skin than painted surfaces, so thinner runs, smaller but higher puddles / droplets on artificial surfaces. Conversely, meandering, wider runs, and wider but shallower droplets and puddles on skin.
4. water droplets have less color and are basically just texture and reflections. They should have the same pallette as the surface they're on.

I really like this piece. A lot of raw emotion, fantastic color pallette.