Introduction
Have you ever noticed the patterns on the wings of a butterfly, and how beautiful they are? It’s as if their wings were actually artworks crafted by renowned artists like Picasso or van Gogh. Butterflies are magnificent creatures, and their beauty is inspirational, so much that you want to take up your brush, and paint butterflies with your own imagination. Oh, what’s that? You don’t know how to draw a butterfly? Well don’t worry, for I’ve got the perfect set of tutorials that’ll help you draw mesmerizing images of butterflies in no time.
To draw a butterfly is to basically draw its wings. The body doesn’t really need much work, but the wings do. After all, they’re the main attraction. So focus on the wings, and on the background of your artwork (if any). You can draw realistic images, or go for an abstract art. The opportunities are endless when it comes to designing the patterns on their wings. You can be as creative as you want with the designs, but don’t overdo it.
Simple Butterfly drawing Tutorial for Kids
Drawing a butterfly has never been this easy. This kid friendly video tutorial will teach them the simplest way to draw and sketch a butterfly. You start off with the alphabet ‘Y’, and add a few more basic shapes around it to complete the drawing. It’s an easy process that requires zero drawing experience or skills. Anyone can pull it off, just by watching this tutorial once or twice. This particular tutorial is perfect for kids of all ages.
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Simple Pencil Sketch of a Butterfly
Sketching is one of the best ways to present an artwork. However, people often find it to be monotonous and difficult. But is that really the case. Well, it may seem that way, but in reality, sketching is fun, and can produce some amazing results. Take this sketch of a butterfly for instance. It's a fairly simple sketch that can be achieved quite easily. Just follow this tutorial, and you’ll be introduced to a whole new aspect of this art form, where you’ll surely go on to fall in love with pencil sketching.
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Easy Butterflying drawing Tutorial with Oil Pastels
In this tutorial, you’ll see how to draw a butterfly and then paint it with oil pastels. This is another tutorial that’s aimed for kids. It’s a very simple process, and involves the use of only simple shapes and lines. If you want, you can add your own design or pattern on the wings of the butterfly. The coloring is also quite easy to follow, and doesn’t require you to use any bends or difficult shading techniques.
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Stunning painting of Butterflies with Flowers
Feliks is one of the most inspirational artists you’ll find on YouTube. He’s work is ingenious, creative, and downright perfect. Not only is he good with his paintings, but he’s also quite capable of teaching us how to paint like him. In this video tutorial, Feliks guides us through another of his masterpieces, as he gracefully paints a focus landscape painting of flowers with butterflies. It’s a detailed tutorial for intermediate, and advanced learners, where you’ll get to learn about coloring in terms of perspective and realism. Just check out the painting below, and you’ll understand what we’re on about.
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Scenic Acrylic painting of Butterflies
In this video tutorial, you’ll get a step-by-step lesson on how you can create a scenic painting of butterflies in the night. The painting is an amazing example of how to create a visual illusion using a brilliant combination of light and dark colors. The artist, Priya, also shows her brilliant shading technique, which is used to give the butterflies, as well as the night sky, a unique glow and lighting effect. All in all, this painting’s got a lot going on, but is still easy to work with, as long as you follow the steps in the tutorial.
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Abstract Butterfly Scenery using Oil Pastels
This tutorial will show you how to create an abstract artwork of a butterfly scenery using a colorful background done in oil pastel. Butterflies are some of the most majestic insects in the world, and this artwork helps to showcase just that with its subtle, yet beautiful use of colors and shades. The tutorial itself is quite detailed. Hence, even if it seems hard to paint at first glance, you can rest assured that you’ll be able to do justice to this artwork once you’ve gone through this tutorial a couple of times.
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Gorgeous Watercolor painting of a Butterfly
This tutorial shows Sarah create a gorgeous painting of a butterfly using watercolor. Her approach is simple, and her technique is quite easy. The tutorial doesn’t involve the use of any complex color blends or shades. It’s a fairly simple process which can give you remarkable results. The finished painting is shown below, and as you can see, it’s quite simple and doesn’t focus much on the detail, making it ideal for beginners to try out.
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A Stunning and Realistic 3D drawing of a Butterfly
Do you think it’s possible to give life to a drawing done with pencil on a piece of paper? No? Well, watch this tutorial, and get ready to be amazed! This sketching tutorial will show you how to create a visually stunning, and realistic 3D image of a butterfly. The tutorial will guide you in every step of the way so that you too are able to create something equally magnificent. It’ll definitely take you a while to master this skill, but in the end, it’ll be worth it.
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Magnificent Oil Pastel drawing of a Butterfly
This tutorial will guide you through the process of drawing a visually stunning picture of a butterfly. The drawing is moderately detailed, and uses color shades quite nicely. As far as drawing or coloring techniques go, this drawing doesn’t really need much of that. The color application process is very simple and straightforward. With a little bit of effort and practice, you’ll be easily able to work your way through this drawing.
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Captivating Butterfly painting
Using light shades of blue, the artist in this tutorial will show you how to make a painting look serene and captivating. If you take a quick look at this beautiful work of art below, you’ll notice how the artist is fixated on using lighter shades everywhere. What this does, is create an environment of serenity, where you get to explore the aesthetics of the painting without being heavily distracted by any other element, or by the presence of any other color. This painting, although quite simple, is truly an amazing piece of work.
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By Jimena & Iñigo
The Navarro-Rubios
My husband and I are learning how to draw and paint. We wanted to share this learning process with the world and have fun! That's why we created this blog. We'll have drawing contests every week and you'll decide who won that week! Follow along and learn with us!
Jimena & Iñigo
The Navarro-Rubios
My husband and I are learning how to draw and paint. We wanted to share this learning process with the world and have fun! That's why we created this blog. We'll have drawing contests every week and you'll decide who won that week! Follow along and learn with us!
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