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Tiger Beetles

I spent some time today in a coffee shop on the East side of Manhattan sketching a few tiger beetles over some iced coffee and an almond croissant (my go-to cafĂ© pastry) and these are the results. I still need to work on getting my proportions and shading right, but I’m trying to get used to doing things imperfectly, so here it is!

Image of two pen sketches of tiger beetles. The sketch on the left is done in black ink with red ink underneath and is the top-down view of a tiger beetle. The sketch on the right is done in red ink and is of the face of a tiger beetle.

Top-down Reference image

Face reference image