100 Days of Making Comics Day 48

1/29/2021 - Day 48: An hour and 15min went into sketching Neonie today and working a little on the next few panels for the comic. I'm still rearranging and playing with the layout a bit on different layers. But I had fun experimenting with different character expressions and loosely sketching small changes to various poses.

Progress Screenshot: [Progress woot]

Other Notes:

Today's random interesting animal(s):  

• One of my top favorite kinds of insect, that also happens to be pretty much harmless to humans, is the mantisfly. Mantisflies make up the insect family Mantispidae, and are a type of lacewing insect, rather than an actual praying mantis. Worldwide, there's something like 400 mantisfly species. 
• Out of all that are out there, my favorite species is the Brown Wasp Mantidfly (Climaciella brunnea) which is a pretty convincing wasp mimic, even though its head and forelegs are like a little praying mantis, and it can't sting. 
• Part of why this is my favorite species, is because I watched an individual Climaciella brunnea hunt smaller insects over a grape vine about 4 years ago, and back then I wasn't familiar with Mantisflies. They're so scarcely seen right where I live, that by that point, I hadn't thought to research them. Which is why when I saw one, I thought it was some kind of highly unusual wasp, until further research prompted by curiosity over the unusual sight concluded that Mantisflies were a thing.

Here's a video I found of a Brown Wasp Mantidfly. I say it's cute.

• TOOLS USED for the art in this post: Autodesk sketchbook on the ipad pro, and a few sketches that were done on actual paper earlier.
  

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