Easy Butterfly Drawing Ideas
Learn to draw realistic butterflies or simple shapes that look like them.
Let us show you some easy and cute butterfly drawing ideas.
To help you when drawing your butterflies:
- The wings can be based on the shapes of the letters 'c', 'm', or 'w'.
- The wings can also be shaped like hearts ♥️
- Remember to make the patterns and shapes of the wings symmetrical
- Use dash lines to make it look like they are flying
Three Sparkling Butterflies
I think adding some stars and crosses around your butterfly drawings make them feel even more magical.
Butterfly Drawing with Flight Lines
Adding these little dashes behind the butterfly makes it look like the butterfly has flown along them. This is a really simple way to add movement to your butterfly drawing.
Butterfly Drawings With Heart Shaped Wings
These are some of the easiest ways to get the shape of a butterfly wing, by drawing two heart shapes with a line between them.
Cartoon Butterfly Drawing
Who doesn't love drawing a cute little smiley face!? This is a quick and easy way to make your butterfly go from looking realistic to more like a cartoon.
Butterfly Line Drawing
Once you have the shape of a butterfly wing down you can add lovely detailed lines and curves along the wings in whatever pattern you want and it looks great.
Simple Blue Butterfly
I started this drawing with a blue heart and then added the body and bottom half of the wings.
Simple Butterfly Drawing
The hardest part about this simple butterfly is getting the wings to look symmetrical. I chose not to add any patterns to the wings as I wanted it to be as simple as possible.
Colourful Butterfly Drawing
Taking the last butterfly to the next level by adding symmetrical patterns and colours.
One of my favourite ways to add colour is to only add it to the edges of the lines.
Monarch Butterfly Drawing
For this one, I wanted to draw a butterfly based on an actual butterfly, the Monarch. I would say it is one of the most iconic butterflies there are.
Two Butterflies Playing
I really like these type of butterfly drawings. Rather than using a heart shape to draw the wings I used the 'm' and 'w' shapes.
To make it look like they are flying around together I added the dashes.
Remember, your butterfly drawings can be as simple or as complicated as you like. I have found that the simpler the butterfly then the easier to look 'cute', the more detailed then the more realistic.
