Krusty

It’s seasonal. Crickets become most active in warm humid weather. Particularly warm nights above 70F.

And yea, it’s not uncommon to not hear the predator(frog) when you can’t hear any prey.

I’m gonna hard disagree with you. No malice.

It’s just that I’m used to a wharf or start menu™. Personally, these are always on the corners. Usually the bottom left or top right (my preference.)

Top or bottom task bars make the most sense, imo.

Horizontal distance > vertical.

You have the common outline everything problem. That works for really basic comics and stick figures. You can even elevate it like manga and other graphic novels. But that stroke layer is often just that. You really need to focus on what your tool is and the render intent.

The beak looks really weird… So do the eyes.

Sadly, your not even keeping the grain of the feathers.

Focus on the brightness and contrast. Don’t outline. Your using a multiplicative medium. Draw the shadows. Sometimes instead of gradients you can use strokes.

Or you could use an additive (digital) medium.

If you have light colored pens that can brighten, then you can maybe use that for highlights. Otherwise you need to let the paper shine through.

Like the feet are another area where you’re outlining instead of ‘painting the darkness’. Realize traditional media is subtractive. Things just get darker and darker and it’s often hard to remove than do less. So feel the darkness if you’re doing art this way. Blend those shadows into the canvas. Playfully, lightly if you want realism. Still focus on those dark areas. Illuminate the highlights by the abscence of pigment.

Keep improving. Practice is everything. Nobody is born knowing artistic techniques.

Toss six philosophical grenades into one paragraph and then act shocked when nobody writes a dissertation in the replies before hitting downvote. The dopamine economy marches on!

Globally sourced thing is globally sourced.

I love dragonflies! So beautiful. Nice work.

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12v DC power source. Sulfuric acid(battery acid) and distilled water. Rit dye. Some degreaser to clean it would be great. That’s about it.

Pretty cheap to DIY a setup. There’s videos on YT.

Get some PPE to be safe.

A water/tear drop 💧 would look cool(instead of the square.) Then anodize it! That’d really pop!