r/drawing

Can you spot the two lovers on that painting ?

While I never intended to limit myself to drawing in only one style, I feel, and a couple of friends tell me, that the way I draw things—faces or just objects—is often identifiable as belonging to a particular style. What do you think of my style in general? What does it remind you of?

(if wrong flair, sorry. Can't find "colour pencils")

It started out as just the top right cicada, for fun. Ending up into this when I came across some bio-archive online with all kinds of science papers, including very old scanned in books on cicada. The bugs are drawn with Bruynzeel simple pens. The paper and desk are drawn using Derwent chromaflow.

It took me about 60 - 80 hours.

Would have liked to work the cast shadow a bit better but I was going slightly insane so let’s just not look at it too much. What would you do to enhance the realism?

Couldn't resist adding a dino :)

Any tips on drawing hands... 🙏