What better way to get into the springtime spirit than with two cute kissing bees? This marks week one of my 52-week drawing challenge. I started planning for this earlier in the month when I was in a bit of a Valentines Day mood. It’s actually my second bee illustration in this style (You can see the first one here.) and I’m starting to really feel like I could happily come up with many more.

UPDATE: My wife pointed out that I accidentally gave the bees and even the ladybug eight legs instead of six! This is the sort of thing I usually am very careful about (my parents were scientists) so of course I had to make some quick edits. Happy, everyone now has the correct number of appendages! You can see horrible spider-bee hybrid monsters in the progress image above.