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SKETCHBOOK

Keeping a field journal is an excellent learning tool. It can help to hone not only practical illustration skills, but also observation and identification. I draw from live and dead specimens, photos, and sometimes from memory, both in-situ and afterwards. I use basic HB pencils and Uni-pin fineliners (003, 01 and 02), and occasionally ballpoint pen.

Drawings and notes do not have to be 'good', neat, require specialised equipment or need to be of any particular skill threshold to be useful.

BUG BOOK

This project is a more detailed and serious scientific illustration exercise aimed at developing the ability to better illustrate and identify a group I would like to progress in: shieldbugs (Pentatomoidea). This is my primary 'life list', with information from many different sources including the BritishBugs website, INPN, Faune de France, and various field guides and other books. The upper images are recent, the ones further down are older drawings from the previous version of the book.

Each page will eventually be photographed and uploaded to Flickr, which will be linked here.

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