How to draw Butterfly
Today’s drawing tutorial will make butterfly drawing easy for you. You can search hundreds of drawing tutorials on the web, but there is no benefit if it’s hard to understand. Therefore, we have come up with an easy butterfly drawing tutorial. You can use this tutorial for all drawing difficulty levels. Butterflies are known for the beautiful patterns made on their wings and represent hope and rebirth. Their lifecycle goes through phases of changing their appearance in each phase. A butterfly’s lifecycle starts from an egg. Then it converts into a caterpillar. Caterpillar hibernates in the form of a pupa. At the last stage, an adult butterfly comes out of a pupa.
Bright colors and striking shapes of butterflies attract you at first sight. Butterflies can be as small as 1/8th of an inch and as large as 12 inches. Despite their small size and vulnerable look, monarch butterflies can travel as long as 2000 miles. Butterflies can’t fly in cold weather. There are nearly 24,000 species of butterflies and moths, eat a liquefied diet and drink from mud puddles. The butterflies can live from a few weeks to 6-8 months. Butterflies use their transparent wings to blend in the environment. This blending in nature causes camouflage and helps to protect themselves from predators. Butterflies can see those colors that humans don’t.
Let’s start with this easy butterfly drawing.
How to Draw a Butterfly With Step by step Guide
Step 1:
Start by drawing a curved line upward to the right. Then bend the line to go below and bend it leftward a bit. From that point, make a V and then make an oval shape. These two shapes represent the butterfly’s right fore wing and hind wing.
Step 2:
Draw a cylindrical shape with those wings to represent the body of the butterfly. This cylindrical shape should be attached to the edges of the forewing and hindwing. Then draw an oval shape on the left side of the body to make the left hindwing.
Step 3:
Repeat step 1 to make the left wings. Now you have a full outlining of the butterfly drawing.
Step 4:
Draw some long random shapes, small rectangles, and tiny circles in the wings near the body. Then draw some random shapes near the outline of wings.
Step 5:
Now repeat step 4 on the left-wing.
Step 6:
Blend the body with dark color. And draw two antennas upward with curved lines thickened at the end.
Step 7:
Blend the wings on the outer edges and leave spaces in between. At this point, you can see a black and white or transparent butterfly.
Step 8:
Use a combination of white, pink, and yellow colors in the previously left spaces in hindwings.
Step 9:
Use orange, yellow, pink, and black colors in forewings. Blend in the colors and draw some black spots as well.
We hope you find this drawing tutorial beneficial for your practice. To learn more, you can check other drawing tutorials on our blog as well. To learn drawing butterflies with different difficulty levels, you can visit our other blog. Your skill level of the drawing does not matter if you have true motivation. If you are starting a drawing but you don’t feel excited about it. Then you should do something else at that time. Attention to detail is the primary requirement of an artist. This butterfly drawing tutorial targets drawing artists of every level. So you can draw the patterns of your own choice in the wings. You may add more details like 3d effects to distinguish the wings and body.
