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Had less time for drawing this week, specifically over the weekend, since I had a sword retreat from Friday to Sunday. I have to keep reminding myself that my Bugtober doesn't have the same requirements as Inktober. I don't have to draw every single day, and I don't have to end the month with 31 drawings on the dot. I can draw fewer, I can draw more. So it's okay to have a whole long weekend where I didn't draw at all, and it's okay not to draw more in the week leading up or following.

This week also marks a departure from my two bug books I borrowed from the library as reference materials (which are the Peterson Field Guide to Moths of Southeastern North America by Seabrooke Leckie and David Beadle, and the Smithsonian Handbook of Interesting Insects by Gavin R. Broad, Blanca Huertas, Ashley H. Kirk-Spriggs, and Dmitry Telnov). My spouse requested a jumping spider, so I took to the internet to find a public domain reference.

This does bring up the question of what I consider to be a "bug". Whether or not something is a bug just depends on its vibe. I'm certainly not sticking to "true bugs", hemiptera. I have an expansive definition of "bug", which includes all creepy crawlies and some organisms that might not be traditionally considered bugs but totally have a bug vibe (horseshoe crabs, for example). Anyway, Bugtober isn't supposed to be about limits, so I'm not limiting my bug definition at all.

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