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Nex · Posted: Sat Feb 03, 2001 4:49 pm

drawing insects is fun

what do you think?

I might post some more in here.

[edit: small terminology problem..]

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Bradford · Guest Member #

it looks to me like a honey bee, but then again what do i know about insects?

anyhoo, i like it. maybe a shadow and a background. but the white is nice too.

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Nex · Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2001 1:32 am

thanks. I think you call it a bumblebee in english.

Its bigger than a bee and can live in temperatures as low as 2�C.

Jenn · Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2001 1:53 am

niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice

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Nex · Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2001 9:00 am

here is one more.. a moth.

Hurri-cane · Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2001 9:06 am

YES GOOOD !!!! lovely !
good job mate, throw THAT on the baaarbie mate.

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silber · Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2001 11:54 am

hehe yes insects rock
nothing is more frighting and beautiful like insects

how about a more detailed/biger/close up version?

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Nex · Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2001 1:15 pm

Thanks!

I could draw some insect details... but all the pictures posted up there are actual drawing size.. so I cant post bigger versions of them unfortunately.

here is a new one-
The infamous Bean Leaf Beetle:

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Jezebel · Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2001 1:18 pm

Nice job Nex. It looks like in this small thread alone you've improved with each consectutive picture you posted! Nice work!

-Beth

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Nex · Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2001 2:03 pm

thanks Jezebel

I guess the last one looks most finished because I had to start it 5 times-
Photoshop always crashed after some time until i found out that it was icq that makes it crash.
So.. I kind of practiced the last one 5 times before I finally could finish it

Enayla · Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2001 2:05 pm

Eeep, these creep me out!

Not the bumblebee though - I love those. Very nice rendered insects! I could never draw those...

How about a dragonfly maybe?

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Nex · Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2001 3:26 pm

I almost had the dragonfly done as suddenly my computer decided to lock up again.. so I'll probably post it later- thanks for the suggestion though.

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Liquid! · Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2001 5:35 pm

NEX -

I love these - I really dig the design elements of bug/beetles/insects, so this thread rules... Where did you get the reference pics... I've been looking for a good bug book for a while...

Keep up[ the awesome work!

-c

Nex · Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2001 4:35 am

Thanks!

I used reference pictures from books, a video tape about the rainforest and pictures from a few .edu sites.
Its pretty hard to find anything more specific than "bee" or "spider" though.
The above pictures were made combining about 4 or 5 reference pictures each to a painting.

[edit: this here is a rather useful link: ]http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/insects/printouts.shtml]

Here is the dragonfly (finally):
The wings were a lot of work.. altough they may not look like it.

this time I worked in 1500x1000 or something and scaled down.

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