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Bee and Gearby `ursulav

Digital Art / Drawings & Paintings / Animals

A quick little spot illo for a commentary about bees, gears, clockwork, and mechanical honey in the Gearworld blog -- [link]

This obviously digital, more cel-shaded style isn't one I use all that much any more, being a texture junky these days, but it's not a bad look, and I suspect it's got a lot of graphic potential I've never been able to tap. Like many of the spot illos in the Gearworld blog, it's just something at random I felt like doodling that was either related to the text, or became related to the text in some fashion. Ironically, not long after I'd written the section about bees, and finished the doodle of bees, I swear every show on TV suddenly involved bees, there was a radio interview on NPR with the author of "Robbing the Bees," in which they discussed how apiculture was the new craze striking the nation, and so and so forth. Like most large, wussy mammals, I fear bees all out of proportion to their size and ferocity, so I have no great affection for them, and I'll be glad when the sudden bee-mania in my geekosphere fades a bit.

On the other hand, the best substance I have ever had in my life was a comb of wildflower honey. I don't know what it was about this particular honey, I've had plenty of stuff billed as wildflower honey that did not compare, but this stuff tasted like flowers smell. After a rain. It was sweet and floral and unbelieveably delicate, and I b'lieve I would sell my own grandmother to find the stuff again. Oh, well.

On the off chance somebody wants a print--for all the apiary fans in your life, say--they're available at [link] for a mere $10

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~Dream-Angel-Artista Nov 1, 2012 Professional Artisan Crafter

cute!

*RomShuvano Nov 21, 2011

Love it !!

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!toasty-fresh Dec 9, 2007

I love the compostion of this . . . very simple, but very elegant. Nice job!

~JaegerHund3 Jun 15, 2006 Photographer

I like the simplicity of it. It seems as if it could be used as a symbol for some bee army (the symbol reminds me of the Imperial symbol from Star Wars).

Like I said, it'd be great for a bee army, or even as a real image on a fighter plane.