Beetle Arabesque -re-scanned-

Here's the re-scan (actually re-photographed) of the Beetle Arabesque made for the Museum of Insects of the Universidad de Costa Rica.

Cerambycid family.

All life size and taxonomically acurate.

Color pencil over cardboard.

20 x 15"

As a side note. Now a days, using Photoshop or similar image editing software, this would have been much easier to create, since all I would have to have created where the individual insects, not even worrying about scale. I would have simply cloned each one and adjusted sizes to create a pattern/arabesque.
In this case though, please keep in mind, a large part of the difficulty and hard work put into this came from creating the whole thing as a single illustration.