Below you’ll find an easy step-by-step tutorial video for how to draw a Butterfly and a Butterfly Coloring Page. It’s a great lesson in drawing and coloring with symmetry!
. This project is intended to land in the middle. The outline of the wings land on the center guides, to help students get started, and there are just enough shapes inside to give a realistic look, without getting forever lost in them.
Try challenging your students to layer crayon color to jazz up their background. You don’t have to use oil pastels to do it, pressing hard with crayons and laying down
How To Draw A Butterfly: Step By Step Simple Butterfly Drawing [video]
Of waxy color can look amazing too! Scroll down to see this lovely purple coloring option. It’s not too hard to understand why so many children AND adults are fascinated with butterflies. Their color and delicate beauty make them endlessly fun to look at.
You may have noticed that all of the tutorials on this site have a dashed line running through the center of each step, both in the horizontal and vertical direction. If students make their own centered lines on their
Paper, before drawing, they will have an easy reference to follow. The best way to get students off to a good start to any drawing project is to show them how a couple of guides can really help as reference points. Drawing skills are all about seeing where to place one’s lines, so having some visual reference point to get started, will always help anyone learn how to be a little more accurate. Does that mean then that students need to draw a big fat lines down the center of their paper before they start? Goodness no, please don’t! That will most likely be hard to erase and distract from any finished art. No, simply fold the paper in half both ways, make a crease, and unfold. The beauty is that by the time the drawing is done and colored in, the creases will disappear.
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Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. This category only includes cookies that ensures basic functionalities and security features of the website. These cookies do not store any personal information.This monarch butterfly drawing tutorial with simple steps was created in conjunction with my how to paint a butterfly step-by-step tutorial. You can even draw a butterfly in this abstract butterfly painting.
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Other ideas is to color it in with crayons, markers, watercolors- it would even make a nifty rock painting idea. You can get creative and both draw and color your butterfly with different colors and patterns!
To make it easier to eyeball the wings symmetry we’re going to draw both wings together in unison. It’s much easier that way.
Click on the image below or this link [how to paint a butterfly Youtube tutorial] to start watching the full length video.
How To Draw A Butterfly (easy Step By Step)
Draw the butterfly’s head thorax and abdomen. This trick will centre the butterfly in the middle of your paper. The body is made of the head (a circle), a middle thorax (oval), and abdomen (oblong oval), 2 eyes (semi-circles on either side of the head) and 2 antennae.
Draw 2 curved lines from the top of part of body (on either side). Try to make these lines equal in length and arch.
Draw 2 curved lines from the bottom part of the body (on either side). Make lines both the same length and arch.
How To Draw A Butterfly Step By Step Drawing + Video
Draw a squiggly line to connect the top of the wing to the middle (horizontal) line. Do this for both sides of the wing
Draw 2 semi-circles connected the diagonal lines from last step and bottom arch lines. Your butterfly overall shape is now complete. Take a step back and make sure both sides are looking roughly equal. Take this chance to fix any areas that stick out.
TIP: It also helps to flip your picture upside down and take a look. Flipping gives your eyes a fresh perspective and you can much easier see if your butterfly is looking symmetrical.
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Fun fact: The markings and color on a butterflies wings are different per species. The colors and patterns help the butterfly to camouflage, protect, attract mates and more. If you want some inspiration for your butterfly art check out this website which has pictures of 50+ species.
Add some semi-circles and “D” shapes for the top 3 sections on the top of the wings. We will fill in around them in the next step
Fill in around the patterns you drew in the previous step (using pencil). Also draw small circles along to top edges of the wings
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