Scientific Illustration

rangireflections:

Vladimir Nabokov’s butterfly maps, photos, and delicate, detailed  drawings are precious. In “Speak, Memory” he wrote, “I have hunted butterflies in various climes and disguises; as  a pretty boy in knickerbockers and sailor cap; as a lanky cosmopolitan expatriate in flannel bags and beret; as a fat hatless old man in shorts”.  

What are my obsessions and where will they take me?

victoriaclaregray:

Mr Metallic wood borer.

Lovely colourful beetle. 

joewardillustration:

Shield Bugs, 2012

(L-R Hawthorne, unspecified Indian, Forest, Common Green)

A small selection of shield bugs from the pages upon pages of insects I’ve been drawing recently. Going for the whole museum collection look. One project aim is to have loads of bugs drawn out to print into a huge piece. This can then be separated out into different individual collections based on species, colour etc. These are really just meant to emphasise intricacy, colour and detail over anything else.

(Copyright for these illustrations is mine)