Let us draw bugs day 1 -Trilobite beetle

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These really cool beetles look like well, trilobites. They're in the Malyasian rainforest and are well, awesome. Heres somewehre to read more about em. https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/insects-invertebrates/trilobite-beetle-guide

Before I get into the drawing and progress, I want to give a shout out to @nestodibuja for doing so many works of bug art already!

Check these out! They're so good!

https://peakd.com/hive-140877/@nestodibuja/en-es-beetle-and-leaves

https://peakd.com/hive-174301/@nestodibuja/en-es-tutorial-let-s

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https://peakd.com/hive-177717/@nestodibuja/en-es-emerald-beetle-d

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https://peakd.com/hive-140877/@nestodibuja/en-es-orange-beetles-doodle

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https://peakd.com/hive-140877/@nestodibuja/en-es-honey-bee-tutorial

I love the variety of styles and how cute so many of them are!

Anyway, here's wonder wall.

I mean, a trilobite beetle

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Not sure why the gif is at the wrong orientation but whatever.

I didn't develop the drawing as much as I wanted because yesterday I was super tired.

I started with the shape, and funny little bumps these funky beetles have.

Having the gif is pretty neat. I used a website to turn the automatically made progress vid(mp4) from Procreate into a gif.

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From there I went in with the base colour. The actual beetle is back but I don't like doing straight black, esp digital. But it does get a very dark blue. I think the exporting process did make it very dark.

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And it kinda disspears when I added the dark background.

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But adding the orange kinda makes it stand out.

Then I added the highlights and did some blending to make the orange blend into the carapace.

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Thank you, I am having so much fun. Since I started taking drawing more seriously I love doing challenges, I do every single one I find. And your challenge fascinates me because I really like insects. I didn’t know this insect you drew. And wow!! I love it!!! What program do you use to draw? I use Ibis Paint but it doesn’t let me save gif images, only videos, and they are super heavy. The gifs freeze when I try to save them. I love your drawing, I adore it, and the atmosphere is 1000 out of 1000.

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I draw in a digital art program on the ipad called Procreate. I really like it.

It doens't do process gifs though, I used a website that can convert videos to gifs. It also has an option to export the process video as either a 30 second(socail media friendly) or full length which can be a monster of a file if I spent a long time on a drawing.

Thank you for the compliments. They do really encourage me to keep drawing :)

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Yeah, I tried Procreate once on my friend’s iPad, but since I’m on Android it’s not an option for me haha. Still, I really love how that app feels.

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It's why a friend of mine gave me an ipad. He let me play with it on his and I was sad when I had to stop. :)

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Hahaha I know the feeling, I draw with Ibis Paint and a cheap stylus, you can do a lot, honestly it is more about wanting to draw than the tools, which tend to show up little by little along the way.

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The thing I love about art is that you can do anything from drawing with a cheap bic pen and scarp paper to massively expensive paint on paper that's super expensive.

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Wow, Ky, I love the texture in this drawing you have such a great way of building depth with those rich darks and then popping those scales with perfect highlights. This bug really came alive

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Thank you so much Dinglehopper! I'm very much enjoying my challenge. Hardest part is picking the bug to draw cause there's just so many different kinds !

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