Butterfly for kids
Children like to draw summer, green meadows, flowers and, of course, colorful butterflies. It's easy to draw a butterfly for kids.
Draw a circle. Inside they put two large black dots, the eyes of a butterfly. She has no nose, and her mouth is depicted as a horseshoe, with the tips up. Horns with balls at the end are drawn on the head.
A rounded line draws the well-fed body of an insect. Cross it with two stripes.
The wings start from the outline of the head and extend in a wavy line to the bottom of the abdomen. Now you can color with colored pencils or paints.
Materials and tools
For a future artist, first of all, it is necessary to organize a workplace:
- Be sure to have a wide table.
- Good lighting.
- Cups for pencils, paints and brushes.
Optimal organization allows you to focus on work and enjoy it. You should also prepare the following sets:
- Simple pencils of various sizes.
- Eraser.
- Colour pencils.
- Watercolor paints.
- Gouache.
- Brushes with different sizes and brushes.
Don’t also forget about sheets of thick paper and ready-made drawings from which you can find inspiration and ideas for creativity.
Children's drawing
You can try a way to easily draw a butterfly that looks more like a real one.
- A circle is drawn on a piece of paper slightly above the middle. The eyes are immediately drawn; to do this, the circle is divided in half and two circles of small diameter are placed on the upper half. They cross the contours of the head. The eyes are painted over, leaving an empty circle in each. These are glares of light.
- Draw a mustache coming out from the top of the head. They diverge in different directions and are rounded at the ends.
- Below the head is an oval body, longer than the head. Wings extend from its right and left sides. You can imagine that each wing consists of two touching ovals, a large one and a small one located below. The boundary between them is being erased. A circle the size of the head is drawn on the top of each wing.
- From the body of the butterfly, legs are drawn on the wings. Make three sticks.
- Color the butterfly. The brighter the colors, the more attractive the butterfly.
Torso
From the circle down, using a ruler, draw an auxiliary line.
- Two curved vertical lines are drawn around this line.
- You should end up with an oval with a line in the middle.
- This oval will serve as the body of the butterfly.
- The body should be longer than the head.
Pencil drawing
There are many miniature details in the structure of the insect's body. You need to determine how to draw a butterfly with a pencil, how large the image will be, and carefully work out every part of the butterfly. The drawing will turn out successful if you use the diagram on how to draw a butterfly step by step.
Using a pencil, draw a long oval body in the center of the album sheet. The open wings of the butterfly will take up all the free space. A small circle in proportion to the body represents the head. If you draw the limbs, 6 legs diverge in pairs in different directions from the chest.
The upper wings are triangular in shape. All corners must be rounded. The longest side is the top border on which the head rests. The lower wings consist of halves of an oval. There is a fringe along the edges of the wings; it is outlined with a wavy line.
A curved line is drawn across the butterfly's head, with the ends down. It runs down the center of the eyes. The eyes are made large and round in shape, painted over with a dark color, leaving small spaces empty. This is how glare of light is created.
Inside the upper part of the head, a zigzag of four strokes is depicted, which touches the upper borders of the eyes. Antennae emerge from the points of contact. Use thick lines. The butterfly's mouth is drawn in the shape of a spiral trunk.
A tick-shaped line separates the chest from the abdomen. The chest is wider in the middle than at the edges. At the junction with the chest, the abdomen has the smallest thickness. There are faint longitudinal stripes along the entire length of the abdomen.
On each wing, an oval-shaped cell extends from the chest. Uneven strips are drawn from them to the fringe of the wing. Each wing is covered with scales.
The common outer border of the upper and lower wings becomes smooth, without sharp transitions.
Simple painting with paints
Using a template
On a butterfly cut out of white paper, draw red, blue, green strokes on one side, fold the butterfly in half, the teacher will help so that the paint on one side is imprinted on the other side. The result is the same color of the wings.
Let's wait until the paint dries, and we can put all the butterflies on the green meadow.
Drawing with gouache
Drawing process:
- We take a landscape sheet, lay it horizontally, and place the drawing in the center.
- We put yellow gouache on the brush, first draw one circle, and a second one next to it, paint over it, these are the front wings.
- Below, under the yellow circles, draw two new circles, smaller in size, these are the rear wings.
- We wait for the paint to dry, and draw small circles with red gouache, identical on the two front and two rear wings, add blue and green circles. Don't forget to rinse the brush well.
- Using brown or black gouache we draw the head, body, and antennae.
Drawing with watercolors
Painting with watercolors requires special skills. We draw the contour with slightly noticeable lines. An adult should help if necessary.
Draw an insect, you can use a stencil:
- We choose a color, cover the design with a brush with water, this is so that the paint adheres well, paint with the main color, preferably blue or purple.
- Add the main paint to the outline of the front wings, and the rear wings closer to the body. You should get a darker shade.
- Dilute a little with water so that the paint smoothly transitions from one color to another. We are waiting for the drawing to dry.
- Using a black pencil, draw thin lines and strokes - veins.
- At the tips of the wings, highlight the outline with black paint using a wavy line, and also apply several small black dots on the rear wings.
- We paint the body, leaving a few white highlights.
- Sprinkle watercolor all over the sheet to create a beautiful background with an image.
Unconventional drawing
This kind of drawing can be done by children of older groups. We use wax crayons and watercolor paint:
- Draw a barely noticeable vertical line with a simple pencil, and draw wings on both sides, draw the head and body on the center line.
- We use wax crayons, trace the outline with them, and make patterns. Patterns can be very different, it is good to achieve symmetry, but uneven distribution of patterns is also allowed.
- We take watercolor paint, dip the brush in water, pick up watercolor, and paint the entire area of the butterfly, including the patterns.
You can suggest using white, then when mixing paints, you get light shades: white and blue - blue, white and red - pink, yellow and white - lemon, you can add strokes, dots, circles with white.
You can come up with a whole plot, “butterflies in the garden”, “meadow butterflies”.
Colored butterfly
How to draw a beautiful butterfly, if in nature there are such unusual specimens that it takes your breath away? To understand this, you need to look at the drawn pictures of butterflies. Find out what solutions other artists have used.
When achieving resemblance to living insects, you need to take into account their anatomical features. The wings extend from the chest, the chest is wider than the abdomen, large cells extend to the middle of the wing.
The butterfly will be drawn sideways. Using rounded lines, draw the upper and lower wings. The edge of the second wing is visible. The body is outlined as an elongated oval ending in a round head. Two antennae emerge from the top of the head, in thick lines. They depict bent legs that originate in the upper part of the body.
Begin to draw a pattern along the border of the upper wings. The size of the pattern decreases towards the base of the wing. The shape of the insect is specified, a bend is made at the junction of the chest and abdomen. Large cells are drawn on the upper and lower parts of the wing. Parallel stripes radiate from the cells. No scales are visible.
Apply colors to the sketch. Darker colors are applied to the bases of the wings near the abdomen. By overlapping some colors with others, smooth transitions are obtained. Small features on the face are not drawn. The head and body, legs are painted with dark colors. Several colors and shades are used.
Glossy highlights are depicted near the edges of the wings. To do this, darken the areas around the light spots. The stripes on the wings are highlighted in color and are clearly visible. It's interesting to play with the shape of the fringe. For some butterflies it comes in a wave, for others it is a smooth line of dark colors. The lower wings may have elongated borders like drops.
How to draw wings?
As you know, the butterfly has very delicate transparent wings that have many veins. Drawing veins makes the design more realistic, so be sure to draw them if you want the butterfly to look natural. They should be thin and symmetrical, but you can come up with patterns for the wings yourself.
If you want to copy a pattern, then use patterns with a photo of moths and transfer them to your drawing. Most often, a pattern in the form of eyes is depicted on the wings, which was invented by nature in order to make the butterfly more terrifying to its enemies.
Photo of a painted butterfly
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