Article · Mississippi Entomological Museum
Scientific Illustration of Insects (according to Joe MacGown)
By Joe MacGown
- Type
- Article
- Level
- Advanced
- Price
- Free
- Published
- 2025
About this lesson
A museum entomologist explains inking insects on scratchboard and with rapidograph pens, using stereomicroscopes, drawing tubes and camera lucida, worked through a beetle example.
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