#cocoon year

[hannahmcgill]

Just...scrunching up the old body like a dirty sock, I guess

(why are caterpillars like this??)

[img id] Digital art of a monarch butterfly caterpillar in the middle of pupating. The style is cel-shaded with delicate thin lineart. The caterpillar's striped body is split open like it has a seam starting with where the head used to be, with the hard green shell of the cocoon poking out. The caterpillar's stripes alternate chaotically between peach, white, and black, with some transparency showing the shell peeking out of the thinnest parts of the skin. The very top of the caterpillar, its very hind legs are wrinkling up with discarded loose skin. A watermark below the artwork reads 'http://hmcgill.art'. [/id]

[hannahmcgill]

This one makes me happy because it's the last time I have to draw that annoyingly detailed eggshell :)

[img id] Digital art of a teeny tiny baby monarch butterfly caterpillar chowing down on its own eggshell. The caterpillar stands on microscopic milkweed fibers and lifts the eggshell overhead, chomping away. The caterpillar is light peach in color, with a black head, black legs, and black spikes running down its body in rows. Its butt is facing the viewer. The eggshell and the milkweed leaf are seafoam green. A watermark in the corner reads: http://hmcgill.art [/id]

[hannahmcgill]

My latest caterpillar stage illustration...if you can find the little critter anyway (I have so much leaf I need to eat, it's absurd 🤢)

[img id] Digital art of an arrangement of milkweed leaves, rendered in soft teal colors. It's a stack of leaves on a stem with one big leaf thrust into the foreground via foreshortening. All the veins can be seen in this one big oval leaf with a pointy end. Eating its tiny way through this leaf is a tiny caterpillar, near the tip. It has a lot of leaf to get through if it wants to become a proper butterfly. [/id]

[hannahmcgill]

I dunno I think it's neat that I can kinda see wings in the cocoon?

[img id] Digital art of a caterpillar mostly pupated, with its body scrunched up at the top into wrinkles and proto-wings clearly visible pressing against the shell of the green cocoon. The scrunchy caterpillar body has thick white, dark gray, and peach stripes. The art style has thin outlines and cel shading. Watermark at the bottom: http://hmcgill.art. [/id]