Tiger Beetle Tiger

This was for my Materials and Techniques for Illustration class. Dumb projects all the time, basically. This was practice in watercolor and ink, and we had to draw some kind of bug looking really big next to something else.

I came across this insect, called a six-spotted tiger beetle, in my searches throughout Google. I loved it, one because it was called a TIGER bettle, and I love tigers, two because is was bright emerald green, my favorite color, and three because I was able to find some good close-up reference photos.

And it's facing a tiger, in a serene, surreal asian setting. I had great fun painting that tiger. I want to paint iger-patterned things now. A lot. Enjoy, folks.