The third in the Insect Dynasty Series, The Butterfly Assassin is actually based on the Giant Atlas moth. This moth is so lavishly decorated however that I thought The title Butterfly Assassin might cause less confusion. The frilly tendrils are actually only found on the males, but I wasn't about to let a design feature like that go to waste!

This was created in Photoshop CS3, taking somewhere around 20 hours, simply because there were so many different material types to render. A first for me and certainly a lot of fun to do.