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Just for fun! I've been painting and playing Pokemon almost exclusively for 2 weeks, and have decided to indulge the itch to paint my new favorite pokes. "insect" was also a daily painting prompt by one of my favorite artists @amyrosegeden on Instagram which got me to start work on a Bartram's Hairstreak sketch (but it's still too early to show that) so bugs were on my mind.This piece turned out to be way more detailed than I thought it'd be. I just kept finding more things to add as I went along. I spent an hour or two on the sketch, then about 4 hours painting it this morning.

Flavor:
Snom, the fictional ice-type caterpillars, are based on the incredibly adorable family of jewel caterpillar ("the nudibranch of the forest"!!) living in Central and South America, which host on such a wide variety of broad-leafed plants I couldn't even find a list of species. The real caterpillar can apparently become pests on certain crops, including citrus, so I paired them with the "sitrus" berries from the game. I covered the berries in ice, like they do to the oranges here in Florida when the temperature drops too low (because, ice). I also read that the young jewel caterpillars also "skeletonize" leaves (which was a new term for me!) so I added a few of those too because they look cool.
I based the pokemon Frosmoth on the real-life monkey moth, who are fuzzy and have a nice shape

Description

Just for fun! I've been painting and playing Pokemon almost exclusively for 2 weeks, and have decided to indulge the itch to paint my new favorite pokes. "insect" was also a daily painting prompt by one of my favorite artists @amyrosegeden on Instagram which got me to start work on a Bartram's Hairstreak sketch (but it's still too early to show that) so bugs were on my mind.This piece turned out to be way more detailed than I thought it'd be. I just kept finding more things to add as I went along. I spent an hour or two on the sketch, then about 4 hours painting it this morning.

Flavor:
Snom, the fictional ice-type caterpillars, are based on the incredibly adorable family of jewel caterpillar ("the nudibranch of the forest"!!) living in Central and South America, which host on such a wide variety of broad-leafed plants I couldn't even find a list of species. The real caterpillar can apparently become pests on certain crops, including citrus, so I paired them with the "sitrus" berries from the game. I covered the berries in ice, like they do to the oranges here in Florida when the temperature drops too low (because, ice). I also read that the young jewel caterpillars also "skeletonize" leaves (which was a new term for me!) so I added a few of those too because they look cool.
I based the pokemon Frosmoth on the real-life monkey moth, who are fuzzy and have a nice shape