Queen Bee

Cropped image is cropped! And a bit shiny! Look here to see the whole thing: [link]

Felt like drawings bees and honeycomb one day. Here's the sketch page that led to this piece: [link]

There's also a honeycomb stencil there. I thought if I made a stencil, it'd be less tedious than drawing hexagons over and over. But, it turned out better to do just that. I took a ruler and made a grid on the paper to help keep things even.

The instructions that came with my X-acto knife say to wear safety goggles while using it.

The border is meant to look like a textured frame. I used the cap of a mechanical pencil as a stamp for all those circles. As I started that, I realized all the little circles overlapping each other look like honeycomb, which adds to the look.

Watercolor and gouache with pen detail.

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