i don't keep ants but i do love them a lot and make art of them, so i figured i'd post some
fanciful image of a formica species waiting out winter in her thatched nest. ink with alcohol marker coloring.
an anthropomorphic ant drinking some tea. this was when i was just starting to get into ants so the anatomy is not great haha. ink and marker as well.
i don't aim to be super technically proficient with anatomy, so this probably has a lot of errors to more experienced ant people. more for my own reference than anything haha. ink
oil pastel pogonomyrmex. proportions are very off haha. i seem to struggle with that a lot. i love how big their heads are in comparison to their mesosoma but my brain defaults to mammal proportions since I've drawn mammals for most of my life.
polyergus. i know they're not that red in real life, just playing around with color. ink with marker again.
another pogonomyrmex with posca paint markers.
that's all i have today.
, C. maritimus, Formica argentea, M. mexicanus 
