Day 4: Frog-legged Leaf Beetle, Part I

I've decided this is going to be a two-day project because I want to color it, but don't have the time to put into it today (Oh yes, I'm making my own rules!). The wasp from Day 0 took several hours to sketch and then color.

So here is the frog-legged leaf beetle sketch, with minimal shading since I will be finishing that tomorrow with colored pencils. This is really a beautiful little beetle with metallic colors - hopefully I can pull that off (and if I ruin it, here at least I can still see it at that stage when it was so full of potential). Below I posted my basic outline before I started adding details to show how I usually go about sketching bugs.

[January 4, 2020]

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Day 6 - Lizard

The drawing of this lizard was interrupted by errands today but luckily I remembered to come back to it. The hubs walked in while I was working on it and said " ugh " (and actually flicked out his tongue much like a lizard)...which I suppose means that it looks real enough ;) ~January 6, 2022~ The Gallery for this Draw Something ( anything! ) Daily Challenge can be seen HERE

The Heian Book Report

I've started re-reading my Heian-era Japanese Literature books (all English translations) and thought I'd write a few thoughts about each while it's fresh in my mind. I started with Hojoki and Tsurezuregusa . So, this is just my announcement, you can read a bit more about my Heian Obsession here and I will post all of the book reports to this page .

Maceo

Last night I lost my beloved Maceo. I've had him since he was six weeks old and he just turned 17 on April 1st. I miss him dearly already. Rest well sweet boy.

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