Scarab (5)
Originally published for paying Patreon members on 2018-08-05. Republished here after a 90-day patron-first period.
One more step. This was another instance of pushing past the maybe-fuck-it-up line. I decided to try to shadow the feathers and paint them in a straight gradient instead of a gradient of layers of wavy lines. I wasn't sure it would work at all until I finished the green.