Bring out your bugs

So I'm curious what others have come up with for different bugs, spiders, leaches, basically creepy crawlies. I was going through some of my photos and came about this gem of a creepy crawly .

ohh KrissieMarie, i am not good with bugs....yuuukkkk!! i love your marguerite and bee!! soo lovely!!!!

very nice. Great detail on the one on top...Bugs is not something i have really practiced. I got to get on it.

ewww is that a parasitic worm!!!! I may have nightmeare. So it is def going in the inspiration file.. Love the vein work BTW

ooh, that worm is totally 3-D, its ,, incredible,
i stick to pretty

I meant i get so frighten! That was a great job thought! Just realized what i said did not come across as i meant it!

I've posted this before so its Old but I did paint it the other way around as in hanging but people like it better this way so I fliped it.

and posted this one too (again old) but I did base it on a real funnel web I kept captive in a jar

Not sure if I posted this think I may have it is based on I think its the Australian desert scorpian from memory went through a phase.


This one I haven't posted it is my one stroke spider so its a bit sloppyer but quick and doable for me on jobs.



Also Krissymarrie that thing reminds me of DUNE - I love that movie. great effort

Elentaura, I love them. I especially love the shadowing. It makes them look 3D. Amazing.

those are amazing, i need to work on shadowing

Ewww, lol. The most I've done is spiders on Halloween faces, no other bugs yet!

Sue those are amazing shaping and shadow you gave them. Wow.

Those bugs... uggg. As awesome as it would be to make them as good as those, I think I'd be afraid of my own art work lol!

Lovely Spidies though!
And that first picture almost had me hitting the backspace button!

Thanks, I know someone around here did a really good rhinoceros beetle But I cant remember who.

My son is very highly aracnophobic (as in been hospitalised for the fear- so yes it dose happen) we went through a therapy and part of the therapy when they discovered that I could make them look real was for me to paint a spider on him and him try not to wash it off. he's good now as in he can look at a spider in the garden from a metre away and have them painted on him (he is almost normal scared now) Ive had to have spiders non dangerous walk on me in therapy and all sorts of things like catch them. an I wouldn't consider myself aracnaphobic but don't want them on me either ( The things we do for our kids) we havn't had a hospital admission for it in I think about 2 years so it did work.

With the redback I got hit with a roll of paper at school by the mum as she thought I had one on me had glanced it and grabed paper and come in for the swat and did not want to alarm me -I took it as a compliment, it was funny moment.

spiders I am good at but there are alot of things I am not so good at - I really need to get better at monsters and there shading - wierd how you can get something like shading in one type of design but then come to somthing different and it not work for you.

I would love to see other peoples bugs too, I like bugs - well the painted ones.

Katurah you just wrote my feelings exactly!
Sue that was a very nice story! How lucky for your son that you could paint so well to help him get through the fear. I laughed out loud when read the part of that woman swatting your arm. That was for sure a great compliment!

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That is amazing Angie!!!! Wow

I like the bee Angie

Thanks guys. I think I will try a spider tonight. I've never done one!

I love these shadows you all do! I can never get it right lol

here is a spider.



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I love thes because they are super quick and easy and moms and dads find them impressive IMO

I like the spiders! Really good work in this page. Maybe i am getting slowly out of fobias?!?