Entomology art course: week three

[ginasketch]

A painting of an African Fruit Scarab. Click through to a larger image:

Comments

[moonvoice]

The male has a little snouty/spadey thing? (Goes to show just how brilliant I am at technical terms with this stuff. *grin*)

[thunderbiscuit]

Those are definitely technical terms. :D

[ginasketch]

I just call it "the horn", which as you can tell is REALLY technical.

But yeah, that's the difference. The males use the horns to fight with.

[paul_scribbles]

Snoutything for sure, and is the female more robust in the hind-limb department? Might be just the angle, but I've found that in some beetles (esp stag beetles) the females often have chunkier legs. Maybe coz they do all the work , digging into treestumps, ground etc...
Your work is brilliant! Oo, I WISHES I was on that course...

[ginasketch]

Not sure about the legs to be honest. I can look again at the same specimen at our next class and let you know. But yeah, the horn on top of the head was the main difference.

[thunderbiscuit]

I had been meaning to comment on your other posts about this class, but I am excited to see what comes of it from you!

One of these days, I am totally buying something from you! <3

[ginasketch]

Thank you! :)

[luckyleaf1977]

Beautiful. I love that you included the shadow.

[ginasketch]

The tutor suggested it and I'm glad I did.

[3dsoul]

Wonderful!