Butterflies

Hey everyone...

I need inspiration for Butterflies... I have looked at the other threads about sucking at Butterflies its pretty old now and thought id start a new one....

Alina

I found this image very helpful in doing better butterfly designs of my own.


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Got me to tone down the details, and also i loved the line "Just because there's real estate doesn't mean you have to cover it."

My butterfly designs improved pretty fast.

so you're starting a new thread about sucking at butterflies?

i consider butterflies the gold standard of being able to face paint. for some reason they seem harder than anything else. hence all the "i suck at butterflies" posts, lol.  still working on my technique.

one of the first couple things i noticed about good butterfly designs is don't paint close to the nose (center of the face), and don't paint a big black bug body and antenna (no one wants a bug on their nose).

that tutorial does help.

forest-fairy, i actually love the rainbow colors and black flowers contrasted with white dots in your old butterfly on the left. do you do an "improved" version of it?

Forest-Fairy wrote:I found this image very helpful in doing better butterfly designs of my own.


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Got me to tone down the details, and also i loved the line "Just because there's real estate doesn't mean you have to cover it."

My butterfly designs improved pretty fast.

Older Butterflies

 

Newer Butterflies

 

After all the times I've seen you post this I finally read it

I think I'll take another crack at the lisa frank butterfly!

Kal wrote:After all the times I've seen you post this I finally read it

I think I'll take another crack at the lisa frank butterfly!

 lol serves ya right!

Yeah that photo had some great tips. Once i started using them my work improved. There is one for tigers too!

Can I get a post of that too?

ok. :p but only because you've been a good girl (that i'm aware of).


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I found these SO helpful that I'm thinking about making some of my own. ^.^

I would give you so many internet hugs if you did that. Especially since I know they'd be good.

I'm glad you found them helpful. I've been talking with Tal about making a book of them.

D.

could save the next person from having to wade through every. single. face painting. design. on google images to figure out what the best techniques are (been there, done that).

Denise - that would be a fantastic idea...

Hey we should skype or something! I spent a bit coming up with lots of ideas that would work for these!