Nature is a combination of different wonders and incredible beauty. Not only animals, but even small insects can be fascinating and unique. Yes, we are talking about beauties - butterflies. Many artists like to pay special attention to the depiction of nature, but everyone needs to learn how to depict her small, but such beautiful elements as well. Someone collects butterflies, someone photographs them, and we will show you how to draw a butterfly in stages.
What is needed for this:
- A simple pencil (preferably with hardness B);
- paper;
- eraser;
- black helium pen (or thin marker);
- colour pencils.
Consider drawing two butterflies at once, but you can choose to draw one.
Draw the outlines of the butterfly by pressing down on the pencil.
Now you need to specify the shape of the wings. Try to draw them symmetrically. An exception is drawing a butterfly with raised wings (an example is a butterfly on the left).
One of the crucial moments of drawing a butterfly with a pencil has come in stages: mark the patterns on the wings with a simple pencil. Take a black helium pen and draw or fill in the body with the antennae.
And now, with a black helium pen, paint over the outlines of the butterfly patterns, as shown in the picture. Try not to leave white gaps. If the question arises: why a helium pen or marker, then the answer is simple - the details will look more expressive and accurate, which is difficult for beginners to achieve with a black pencil.
The most enjoyable stage of work is coloring the wings of butterflies. Choose any color or follow our example and the drawing is ready!
Now you know how to draw a butterfly with a pencil step by step, but we offer you to watch and video how to draw a butterfly with watercolor, which you will find in our other article at the link: (link). Creative success!
Butterflies are wonderful and very beautiful creatures of our planet. They appear every summer and delight the eye. Today we will learn how to draw a butterfly with a pencil, and then color it. This lesson is suitable for children, adults, novice artists and, of course, experienced artists :)
There is nothing difficult in drawing this beautiful creature. The only difficulty you may encounter is with the symmetry of the wings. But it doesn't matter, the more you practice, the faster you will learn how to draw them correctly.
How to draw a butterfly step by step
Finally, it's time to draw our insect, draw our butterfly with a pencil!
Stage 1
The first step is the easiest step. We draw a straight line, the line must be straight. This is an auxiliary line and it indicates the length of the body and divides it in half.
Stage 2
The second step is a little more difficult than the first, but we are sure that you can still handle it. We draw the torso, divided into two parts. At the same time, the lower part of the body is slightly larger than the upper.
Also in this step we make a circle, which will be the head of our butterfly, and draw a long antennae. 
Stage 3
It's time for the wings. We will draw them in stages, first the upper part, and in the next step the lower one.
So, usually in butterflies, the upper wings are much larger than the lower ones and they grow, respectively, from the upper part of the body. In our case, they are triangular in shape and almost the same size as the bottom ones. If you don't like the triangular shape, then you can easily draw any other shape. 
Stage 4
Now we are working on the lower wings. They are rounded, large and strongly go beyond the line of the body, which we drew in the first step. In case you haven't noticed, the upper wings should extend beyond this line as well.
The most difficult thing about drawing a butterfly is to make symmetrical wings, of course, if you work on a computer, then it will not be difficult for you to achieve symmetry, but if you draw a butterfly with a pencil on paper, then you may have problems. Therefore, be patient and eraser :) 
Stage 5
Now comes the most enjoyable stage in drawing a butterfly. We are working on patterns on the wings! Patterns can be very diverse, namely round, linear, plain, multi-colored, etc.
So, we make the symmetry of the patterns on the right and left. 
stage 6
Patterns are not wings, they can be symmetrical or not symmetrical at all. Even if you want to draw a butterfly with completely different patterns on different wings, then this is quite normal. 
Stage 7
We complete the patterns on the upper wings. 
Stage 8
You already know a lot about the pattern, so try to come up with some kind of your own pattern for the lower wings. 
Stage 9
At the last stage, we color our butterfly and it is ready.
There are an infinite number of variations of drawing butterflies. Experiment with colors, shapes, patterns, sizes and you will get wonderful creations.
Another option for drawing a butterfly
I will teach you how to draw a butterfly with a pencil step by step for beginners, in fact, at the beginning the butterfly is drawn quite simply, but with each step everything becomes more complicated. The important point is how you draw the wings of this beautiful creature. Naturally, after you have drawn a butterfly, you can decorate it, but little children love to do this. And I will show you everything from the very beginning, we will naturally start with the torso.
There will be third-party lines in the figure, for a good example, if you have some skill in drawing, then you can not do these lines, so as not to erase them with an eraser later.
The beginning of a drawn butterfly is easy, as I said. We draw a vertical thin line and draw three oval shapes, at the top of the head, it is more roundish, then the body consists of two parts.
The next step: we sketch the lower part of the body with small horizontal arcs. And below the first half of the body we draw the first parts of the wings. Thus, how to draw a butterfly is already being drawn.
We connect the rays that look up on the wings with arcs next to the butterfly's head. From the first half of the torso, I drew lines down, for clarity, you can see that the lower wings are drawn evenly.
The following butterfly pictures are already decorating it, and there are no main elements. You can repeat after me or imagine yourself. We draw winding patterns on the wings, be sure to adhere to the symmetry of both wings, such a feature of butterflies in our world.
First, draw the main stains (lines).
Drawing lesson for younger students
Watercolor painting technique. Master Class. "Butterflies"
Master class for children aged 8-11, teachers, parents.
The image of a creative composition in watercolor technique on the theme "Butterflies"
Target: Acquaintance with simple, but effective methods of working in watercolor technique.
Tasks:
· Acquaintance with ways to create a creative composition on the theme of "Butterflies" using cardboard stencils;
· Getting an idea about drawing techniques: watercolor with wax crayon and "splash";
· Development of skills and abilities in watercolor technique;
· Raising a sense of beauty and love for nature.
Development of creative imagination, fantasy;
For work you will need:
A3 watercolor paper
· watercolor paints,
squirrel brushes No. 3, No. 8,
jar for water
palette,
· Toothbrush,
· wax crayons,
a simple pencil
cardboard,
· nail scissors,
printed images of butterflies of different shapes and sizes,
· copy paper.
The first step is to prepare stencils for the image of butterflies. Such work is not always within the power of a child, so adults will need to make these stencils before starting work with children.
Stencils are easy to make if you pre-print images of butterflies of various shapes and sizes (wingspan from 4 to 10 cm).
And transfer them along the contour through carbon paper onto cardboard (for example, 3 butterflies on 1 sheet of A4 cardboard).
Then the butterflies need to be cut out so that both parts are intact - the butterfly itself and the cardboard from which it was cut out (it is more convenient to use nail scissors).
What amazing beauty?
The meadow is covered with flowers!
Miracles happen
Here the magician worked hard!
But the wizard has nothing to do with it!
These butterflies have flocked
clear sunny day
Relax on the grass sat down! (S.A. Antonyuk)
How can we draw this unique and multi-colored world of a summer meadow, where butterflies flutter? To convey the brightness of color, the airiness of space, the tenderness and lightness of butterflies, we use watercolors.
For the image of butterflies in the meadow, in addition to watercolor, we will use wax crayons in Option No. 1. And in Option No. 2, a toothbrush and a “spray” technique.
Option number 1
Place butterfly stencils on a blank sheet of paper. Their number can be from 3 to 5 pieces. Make sure that the butterflies beautifully and harmoniously fill the space of the sheet, not getting too close to the edges. It is better to place the largest and most beautiful butterfly in the center, and smaller butterflies along the edges.
We circle the butterflies first with a simple pencil, and then with wax crayons (you need to choose light-colored wax crayons).
With crayons, add vertical lines of grass.
Now it's time to start painting. Having prepared a jar of water and a palette, you can take a large brush (for example, No. 8) and boldly paint the background around the butterflies. Using shades of green, blue, yellow, brown and their mixing options.
Butterflies will be painted with a smaller brush (for example, No. 3). We use shades of red, raspberry or orange.
At the end, the background can be supplemented with colorful strokes, conditionally conveying the space of a flowering meadow.
Here's Option #1
We will start our drawing with the initial contours, namely the images of the body and head. Such initial contours will help to correctly depict the butterfly. Performing the first stage of the drawing, you should also draw a few lines, which in the future will become the wings of a butterfly.
2. Let's start drawing the wings and the head of the butterfly
You need to draw the antennae first, try to depict their edges with slight thickenings, so it will be clear that you are drawing a butterfly. Then you need to draw lines that will become the upper contours of the wings. After that, our task is to draw the lower fender liner. You also need to depict the upper part of the lower wings, we draw it rounded. Try to depict all these contours with great accuracy, because the initial markup will indicate the entire drawing.
3. We are engaged in drawing general contours
I would like to note that this is quite easy to do. You just need to connect the previously drawn lines, thus depicting the outline of the wings. No need to put pressure on the pencil with your hand, so drawing is easy.
4. Working on the silhouette of our butterfly wings
The next step is also easy to draw. In fact, the shape of the wings of a moth is "wrong", so there are no special rules for their implementation. These lines can be drawn arbitrarily, at your discretion, as you like. The main requirement is that the wings of a moth must be symmetrical.
5. Lines on the wings of a moth
Probably, you have noticed more than once that the wings of a moth are tender, sometimes it even seems that they are transparent. However, there are streaks inside the wings, it is them that we need to draw. These veins can also be drawn arbitrarily, but there should not be many of them. So step by step we got a charming butterfly, very similar to the real one. It is not difficult to complete this drawing if you follow the step-by-step instructions with accuracy. True, first you need to come up with patterns, and then apply them to the wings. For example, there are butterflies with patterns in the form of large eyes on their wings. With the help of these huge eyes, butterflies successfully defend themselves from various birds that want to feast on them.
6. Getting Started Drawing Patterns
If you have never used paint to draw, we recommend coloring the butterfly with colored pencils. You can also try shading the drawing using a simple pencil. As you have seen, drawing a butterfly is easy and simple. Of course, this is not without certain difficulties. For example, when drawing the rough surface of the wings, everyone had a little difficulty. To facilitate this task, you need to depict the surface of the wings with pencil strokes, directing them in one direction. Then you can try to rub the strokes made with your finger.
The variety of patterns depicted on the wings of a moth is very large, so you can use those that are best for drawing. In addition, you can invent patterns yourself. I would like to note that almost all garden butterflies have a black stroke on their wings, but the cabbage butterfly has lines with circles that are not observed in other butterflies.
