Shon2 Posted September 13, 2019 Share Posted September 13, 2019 Got the opportunity to draw some of my roaches for a school assignment These are just sketches, but I would love to do some nicely rendered art of them soon. I would love to see more art of bugs while I'm here! If any of y'all wanna share your art here, please do 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hisserdude Posted September 16, 2019 Share Posted September 16, 2019 On 9/12/2019 at 10:27 PM, Shon2 said: Got the opportunity to draw some of my roaches for a school assignment These are just sketches, but I would love to do some nicely rendered art of them soon. I would love to see more art of bugs while I'm here! If any of y'all wanna share your art here, please do Beautiful, very nice sketches! I've tried drawing some roaches in the past, I always mess up on the legs though... 😅 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shon2 Posted September 19, 2019 Author Share Posted September 19, 2019 On 9/16/2019 at 2:16 PM, Hisserdude said: Beautiful, very nice sketches! I've tried drawing some roaches in the past, I always mess up on the legs though... 😅 What is it about the legs that gives you trouble? :0 And what medium do you work in? I'm sure your art still looks pretty roachy, even if you see details that aren't completely accurate. The legs on my sketches aren't perfect either! :'D 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hisserdude Posted September 21, 2019 Share Posted September 21, 2019 On 9/18/2019 at 8:31 PM, Shon2 said: What is it about the legs that gives you trouble? :0 And what medium do you work in? I'm sure your art still looks pretty roachy, even if you see details that aren't completely accurate. The legs on my sketches aren't perfect either! :'D Just getting the segments right and in a natural looking position, which I'm sure could be fixed with practice. I use good old fashioned clicky pencils and paper, don't have a drawing tablet or anything, (though I would like one eventually). Your stuff looks way better, that's for sure! 😅 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hisserdude Posted September 21, 2019 Share Posted September 21, 2019 These are my best two IMO: The models: 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shon2 Posted September 21, 2019 Author Share Posted September 21, 2019 1 hour ago, Hisserdude said: These are my best two IMO: The models: I love these! Your work is great, it looks very accurate to the cuties in the photos 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hisserdude Posted September 21, 2019 Share Posted September 21, 2019 14 hours ago, Shon2 said: I love these! Your work is great, it looks very accurate to the cuties in the photos Thanks, I'm glad you think so! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
varnon Posted October 2, 2019 Share Posted October 2, 2019 Shon, These are excellent. I could actually see something like this being used for scientific illustration (I have commissioned such illustrations before). One of my friends had to do similar sketches for a graduate entomology class and really enjoyed it, those were less holistic and more close ups of parts though. Keep it up. Hisserdude, yours are actually pretty good too. They mostly just lack shading. And I totally get the point about not being able to get the legs to look natural. I can get it if I copy an image closely, but free hand, I think I just don't 100% understand the legs and joints. They are so alien its hard to make sense of it sometimes. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shon2 Posted October 3, 2019 Author Share Posted October 3, 2019 16 hours ago, varnon said: Shon, These are excellent. I could actually see something like this being used for scientific illustration (I have commissioned such illustrations before). One of my friends had to do similar sketches for a graduate entomology class and really enjoyed it, those were less holistic and more close ups of parts though. Keep it up. Hisserdude, yours are actually pretty good too. They mostly just lack shading. And I totally get the point about not being able to get the legs to look natural. I can get it if I copy an image closely, but free hand, I think I just don't 100% understand the legs and joints. They are so alien its hard to make sense of it sometimes. Thank you so so much for this! I really appreciate it 😆 I would love to do some actual scientific illustrations, whenever I can get the time to sit down and draw for something outside of class, I'd love to do studies based off your work/ with similar intentions. Can you share your work here? I'd love to see it, but no big deal if you can't upload em. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
varnon Posted October 3, 2019 Share Posted October 3, 2019 I have done a few cockroach learning/behavior studies, but nothing published yet, so nothing I can share at the moment. A fair bit of my published work is with bees, you can see here: http://cavarnon.com/publications If it has a link, its open access, if not, then it is something I'm not actually allowed to share freely. Bees are a little higher maintenance, and I don't like getting stung in the face, so I'm really shifting my work toward cockroaches this year. It'll probably be at least a year before I have something sharable, but of course I'll share everything with the group here. In the mean time, here is one of my colleagues's web page: https://www.roachlab.org/ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hisserdude Posted October 8, 2019 Share Posted October 8, 2019 On 10/2/2019 at 8:37 AM, varnon said: Hisserdude, yours are actually pretty good too. They mostly just lack shading. And I totally get the point about not being able to get the legs to look natural. I can get it if I copy an image closely, but free hand, I think I just don't 100% understand the legs and joints. They are so alien its hard to make sense of it sometimes Yeah I'm terrible with shading in all my art... 😅 And yeah if I'm looking at an image I can copy legs decently, but free hand I really don't know how to make them look realistic... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shon2 Posted August 22, 2020 Author Share Posted August 22, 2020 Made these into wallpapers if anyone is interested: https://sta.sh/07ea4zjiq2u https://sta.sh/01u933hl4mly 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Clausen Posted October 4, 2020 Share Posted October 4, 2020 Awesome drawings! (And thanks for reporting the spam post. I deleted it.) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shon2 Posted October 4, 2020 Author Share Posted October 4, 2020 Thank you so much! I really appreciate it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RenOfTheRoaches Posted May 25, 2021 Share Posted May 25, 2021 On 9/21/2019 at 12:53 AM, Hisserdude said: These are my best two IMO: The models: I love the zebra bois! One of my favorite species! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RenOfTheRoaches Posted May 25, 2021 Share Posted May 25, 2021 On 9/13/2019 at 12:27 AM, Shon2 said: Got the opportunity to draw some of my roaches for a school assignment These are just sketches, but I would love to do some nicely rendered art of them soon. I would love to see more art of bugs while I'm here! If any of y'all wanna share your art here, please do THESE ARE SO CUTE AND GOOD OMG 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shon2 Posted June 3, 2021 Author Share Posted June 3, 2021 On 5/24/2021 at 6:41 PM, RenOfTheRoaches said: THESE ARE SO CUTE AND GOOD OMG Thank you so much!! I appreciate it 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RenOfTheRoaches Posted June 3, 2021 Share Posted June 3, 2021 6 hours ago, Shon2 said: Thank you so much!! I appreciate it You're welcome! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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