LEA HERZL
home drawings projects
fire beetles
description
I did this beetle illustation in spring 2020 inspired by red fire beetles in my mums garden. Actually I never really liked those beetles as a kid, but on the illustration they look kind of cute to me. I can imagine them on a pattern or on a screenprint as well. Also, if you take a closer look, the black parts on their body resemble creepy faces or masks. I made a mistake in one of them, find it!
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corkscrew willow
description
Willows are my favorite trees, and I wanted to draw one from an interesting perspective. I never tried this shadowing technique before and it got me really excited. In my opinion the left bottom corner is the strongest part of the illustration, in the rest I got very confused with all the branches crossing each other and couldn't really manage to get the right perspective. Anyways I really like how this turned out.
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root
description
That's a dead root, what can I say.
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beetles
description
Apparantly I have a beetle fetish. For real, my mum told me that I carried around a dead scarab for two weeks when we where on holiday in agypt. Although I was only 17 years old at that time (jk), I can surely understand why one would be fascinated by the colors of these animals. Concerning my illustration, I used the wrong paper and had a very hard time with the colors not floating into each other. Remember to use aquarell paper kids.
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proboscis monkey
description
This illustation was made for an uni course, where we had to pick an animal and illustrate it in different styles. I really wanted to choose an ugly one, but actually I find them kind of fun now. Also I found out my godmother has a thing for them because they somehow reflect her taste in men, so I will gift one to her eventually. I feel like I learned a lot about shading and structure and not so much on how to make 92631418 strokes without loosing your mind.
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