Drawspace lesson S05: How to draw a butterfly.

As much as I love butterflies I could never do a proper proportional drawing of it. It's weird, because it seems to be so simple, but hey, it's not! Recently I included a Poppy in one of my works and swear, It took me several hours to outline something valuable. So no wonder butterflies don't come easy to me!

But here it is, my first colorful butterfly.

I loved it!!! I didn't reach the same colors as on the reference, but I don't mind. I loved doing the white dots and mixing the colors.

The challenge was to draw another butterfly so I did two more.
That's the first (ref image)

And that's the second. (ref image)

The experience was amazing and I had so much fun drawing those!

Drawspace lesson S04: how to draw a cartoon chick.

I don't know how about you but when I opened Lesson S04 and saw the suggested subject, I immediately thought of Tweety, one of the most famous chicks in the world! Tweety and Chicken Little.

This is the Chick from the lesson.

It was a cute, simple and fast sketch.

This is, obviously, Tweety.

Tweety was really simple and it took me about half an hour to complete.

And this is Chicken Little. Yes, I know, it's a bit hairy. I love how the pants turned out, though :).

As you can see, my main struggle was with the color, not the form. When I bout my set of pencils I didn't really think I would need many colors and shades, so I bought a small box of 12. When shading Little I've realized how wrong I was. And actually, at this very moment of writing these lines I do regret for not using my "simple and lousy" colored pencils I mention in my previous posts. Yes, I guess they could be really useful here. Well, next time I'll do it.