This is the Springtail. I was watching the
amazing television series ‘Life in the Undergrowth’ (of which I have already
mentioned the book that accompanies the series) by Sir David Attenborough and
the BBC. He was doing a segment about a very fancy bug called a Springtail.
I’ll post a link below so you can watch it for yourself (The Eiffel Tower!) I
feel if I can let the man himself tell you, why pass up that opportunity.
Anyway, I was very inspired by this tiny
creature and I decided to make a bug in honour of him.
I gave him a small head, simple antennae, black
eyes and a dome shaped body like the insect in the documentary. I thought he
was so cute and he had adapted to survive in such brilliant ways that it was
only right that my Springtail should look somewhat like his living breathing
counterpart.
I love when inspiration strikes like this. You
can see something or hear something and it just makes you want to make.
I know my version is much showier than the real
one. In thinking about it now, I guess it’s a little deity I can offer up to
the Gods of the Springtail. Carry on you little wonders, I salute thee!
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