day one-hundred-and-eighty-eight - hawk moth

yet another species with a cool scientific family name - sphingidae.

sphin-g'day to you too hawk moth...

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i have a knack for choosing the least cool (or at best, the second-coolest) member of a species to draw. this hawk moth is cool, and a lovely dusty orange colour when not coloured in with lead pencil, but i could have drawn a hummingbird hawk-moth.

that's two bird names in a non-bird species right there. very impressive work hawky.

dash! another missed opportunity.

xj

day one-hundred-and-sixty - crimson-speckled flunkey

or a spotty moth, if you'd prefer:

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again procrastination (and a hangover) have gotten the best of me. silly jemma - don't start something so detailed at 11pm.

g'night.
love from an idiot,

xj

p.s. i actually photographed one of these guys on my verandah months and months ago, but only just now deemed it worthy of drawing. oops!

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day three - moth

oh man my eyes hurt. so.. much... concentration. but my eyes don't hurt as much as this guy, what with his lust for light.

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a little-known fact about moths: everyone thinks butterflies are sooooo great, but did you know moths are infinitely cooler. this is why...

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that is a moth face. nutjobs.
xj