What do Insect Illustrators do?
Scientific Illustrators use various techniques and technologies including:
Ink on scraperboard illustration of the rare Queensland Stag Beetle, Sphaenognathus munchowae Moore and Monteith, 2004, by Geoff Thompson
Montaged and edited digital photograph of a new species of Christmas beetle, Anoplognathus debaari, by Geoff Thompson.
Watercolour of a Goliath Stick Insect, Eurycnema goliath, by Sally Elmer, QM.
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