This is probably my most successful piece because the prisma colors are mixed really well and the wood table behind the wing looks pretty well done. I gave this to my Grandma, framed, and she thought I had bought it and given it to her.
That's probably the best compliment I've gotten on any of my artwork so that gave me the idea that this one was one of the best. My goal was to make a butterfly wing as detailed as possible because it was a close-up composition with colored pencils and I think I accomplised that. My original idea was to draw my sister's boyfriend's Camaro, but I remembered that my Grandma had been asking for a piece of my art so I changed it up. I decided to make her a butterfly wing because butterflies are what she is known for in the family. There is butterflies all over the house and real ones right outside. I researched them to be honest and tried to find the |
best one to draw and found that the most complicated one would probably be the Swallowtail or the Buckeye. I then remembered that my Grandma first started liking butterflies when she was little and saw a Monarch with a broken wing on the sidewalk so that's how I thought of drawing one. It's a pretty simple drawing too. You just have to know what shapes to put on the page. I sketched all three of these out just to be sure of which one I wanted to use and my first intinct was right. I wanted to draw the Monarch. I drew a page sized close-up of the left wing as a sketch. I started off just normally sketching, but, as I got more into the outline, I started putting more detail than I intended. I ended up putting too much effort into it and switched it to my final piece. I would have definitely made it bigger than it is now if I hadn't put so much work into the small one. After drawing the outline of the final, I started adding the colored pencil in layers. I had A LOT of layers. Each layer had to get the perfect amount of each orange, yellow or brown to get a perfect color of the wing. I had to place them in the right spots too. I drew the orange part of the wings first and then went back and drew the black edges. I added some white to some parts of the orange because that's what a Monarch has on it's wing. I also added excess white wing to the black part of the edges. For the wood, I just drew about 2 swirls in two random places and drew lines around them. That was probably the easiest part of the project besides adding shading under the wing and along the edges of each piece of wood. One thing I find wrong about my this piece of work is the wood, actually. I made each piece too small because if you think about a butterfly wing, It's really small. The whole butterfly doesn't even fit on one plank. Besides the little things, I really believe this was my best work.