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Bug-A-Day Challenge 2020 Gallery


Bug-A-Day Challenge 2020
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Bug-A-Day Zero: Happy New Year!

With a New Year comes the desire to improve oneself...in other words...Resolutions. For starters, I've decided to renew my Bug-A-Day project and see where that takes me. Maybe I can get past the three-month mark this time. Maybe I won't make it past one. ;) The goal is to complete a year.

The point of it is not to be perfect, but to work on something everyday. This kind of exercise helps get the creative juices flowing again, and is also good practice for techniques I don't normally use (ahem,...brush pen...).

This is just the gallery page. Each individual project has its own post should you wish to read more about it (the Days are links).



Ambush Bug


Hummingbird Moth


Toad Bug


Frog-legged Leaf Beetle Part I

Day 5

Frog-legged Leaf Beetle Part II


Sick Leave

Happy Anniversary!

Day 8

Devil's Coach Horse

Day 9

Spoonwing

Day 10

Roach on the Face


Impossibly Fuzzy Bee

Day 12

Brushed Stag Beetle

Day 13

Fun with Dremel

Day 14

Brushed Mantispid


Another Sad Cockroach


A Quick Re-creation


Acorn Weevil


Syrphid Bee Fly


Dremel Stag Beetle Part I


Life Finds A Way


Dremel Stag Beetle Part II


Brushed Buffalo Tree Hopper


Stamped Stag Beetle


The Bee's Knees


Brushed Leaf-footed Bug


17-Year Periodical Cicada

Day 27

Ice Scorpion


Fossil Wasp


Katydid Nymph

Day 30

Hawk Moth


Ant Mimic Mantis Nymph


Boxer Mantis Nymph


Brushed Violet Ground Beetle


Tropical Stinkbug


Stonefly Larva


Brushed Pasimachus

Day 37

Another Sad (and Ill) Cockroach



Roach sucks at Kite Flying


Roach's Sandwich is Ruined


Full Moon Luna


Brushed Scarab


Sick Leave, or, Brushed Syrphid Fly


Luna Moth Earrings


Ant Lion Larva


Backswimmer


The Bee's Knees Part II (or III?)


Black Beauty Walkingstick


Giant Waterbug, and a Story


Brushed Bombardier Beetle


Leafhopper


Bee Earrings


The Beetles


Brushed Dobson Fly


How I make shrink plastic earrings

Tropical Stinkbug Earrings

Blue Weevil Earrings


Rainbow Leaf Beetle


Day 59: Brushed Blue Pleasing Fungus Beetle

Day 60: Brushed Metallic Wood Boring Beetle

Day 61: Colored & Splattered


Tiny Ground Beetle Watercolor


Tiny Stag Beetle Watercolor


Day 64: Brushed Oak Treehopper

Day 65: Brushed Candystripe Leafhopper

Day 66: Paint & Splatter




Alas! These challenges are difficult to keep up with!









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