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Western themes…

I have been getting back into drawing and painting recently and wanted to make a attempt at joining a event in my city. I was looking for the first thing to attempt and decided to go with a Western / Scifi gallery.

I did not find the event posting with as much lead time as I would have liked but I’m giving it a shot anyway.

Drawing insects

Drawing a praying mantis perched on a rock

I have done a lot of quick sketches of mammals, fish even birds but not as many insects. So today I decided I should give a stab at drawing a preying mantis. I just googled praying mantis and attempted to freehand sketch the following reference image.

The result

Pencil and paper sketch scanned in and touched up in GIMP

The reference image.