CosCreative

I'm working on an illustration lesson that children will do at the museum. Today my team and I spent some time illustrating insects, and when I went home, I just couldn't stop. I don't have praying manti at my house, so I had to use visual reference from the department of Entomology at the University of Illinois (Great reference site). I will have about 100 praying manti hatching in about a week. Right now they are in tiny little egg sacks. Once they hatch, you have to separate them, or they will eat each other. I did this illustration in pen.