The lighter orange-yellow sections are coloured with dark cadmium yellow. Then, shade with the orange pencils. I used a mid orange that is slightly neutral in tone, with the name Terracotta from the Polychromos range. Shade the butterfly drawingĭraw over the veins on the wings with a black pencil and shade the black sections, leaving white markings along the bottom and upper wings. Copy the patterns from the drawing, working one section at a time. Then draw the cells and veins on the wings. Draw where the black outline of each wing and where the intersection of the upper wing and hind wings will go. Draw the patterns on the butterfly’s wingsįollow the outline of the wings and draw the patterns on the wings of the butterfly. Make sure to erase the guides when you’re happy with the butterfly drawing ouline. You can optionally darken the outline of your butterfly drawing with a black coloured pencil. To draw the outline of the body, it’s only about cm wide, so draw it half a cm from the middle marker at the top, curve downwards, then draw the head at the top, creating the outlines of the eyes and the antennae. Next draw a semicircle for the bottom of the wing and curve up slightly to meet the middle where the body will be. Then it’s a straight line down to the 2.5cm marker and curve gradually inwards by about 4cm.
Draw the outlineĭraw the outline of the butterfly, for the wing, start just below the top guide, curve upwards to the top, sweep across, then curve slightly down again. Erase the guidelines as soon as you’ve drawn the outline. Join the lines up and you should have a hexagon shape like the image above. I also measured 2.5cm below the top line, to show where the wings start to curve downwards and 5.5cm down to show where the forewing overlaps the hindwing. Next I measured 10cm below the line for the bottom of the wings, then created a 10cm line running parallel to the top, centred at the halfway point.
Then, I marked halfway across this line to show where the body would go. I created my drawing on A4 paper so I drew a light line with HB graphite pencil across the top 20cm wide. The width of the butterfly is double the height, and the wingspan of the upper forewings is double the bottom hind wings.įrom this information, we can make the guides. The first step is to draw guides, so that you can ensure that the butterfly’s wings are the same size and shape.
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