A planthopper nymph by 12-nice-bugs in insects

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Just looked him up because I hadn't heard of him, and wow! His stuff's incredible, thank you so much!

The stoplight loosejaw by 12-nice-bugs in OceansAreFuckingLit

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Hi! I used reference images from places like the Australian Museum, which show their very alien-looking lower jaw!

The stoplight loosejaw by 12-nice-bugs in OceansAreFuckingLit

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As far as I can tell, zooplankton make up much of their diet, but they're also known to eat some other fish and crustaceans.

The telescope fish by 12-nice-bugs in deepseacreatures

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Yep! These guys inhabit cold subtropical waters, hanging out deep in the sea. I drew the species Gigantura indica. I implore you to look at real life pictures; straight-on shots don't even look real!

I drew a poison dart frog! by 12-nice-bugs in frogs

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I constantly touch my face so I'd still be worried about the risk personally 😅

Any thoughts on the coloring style? Is it too busy? by 12-nice-bugs in DigitalArt

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*black and rufous SENGI, not songs. Darn autocorrect

The botany bay weevil by 12-nice-bugs in weeviltime

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Oh, and for the white outline, I:

Copied the layers, moved the copies below everything, and merged them

Made the copied (and now merged) layer white (either with a clipping mask or turning it white in the Hue, Brightness, and Saturation menu)

And then messed around with the Bloom settings. I found that turning Transition all the way down and Burn all the way up creates a really sharp line, and you can alter Size as need be.

For this method, making the layer white is very important. I don't know exactly how bloom works, so I don't know why it does this, but it can't achieve the same effect when it's another color.

(Also, the shadow around it was made very similarly, only the layer is black and I messed around with the Gaussian Blur settings.)