Drawing a butterfly (for young kids)

1. Introduction: Hey guys, it's Big Mac. You might not know me, but you know him. I will be teaching you how to draw it. Fly. Obviously, I wouldn't do this line here with the help of my personal assistant, right? I think my personal assistant actually, today's class guys is all about drawing butterflies. And we are going to teach you both of us. I going to teach you how to draw four different styles of butterflies. In between, we're going to teach you about and lots of different color combinations that you can actually draw some of your own butterflies. This one's pretty cool. Then right at the end we're going to show you how to make a butterfly puppet. You want to show them. It can fly across your screen. There's gonna be a lot of fun. This class is aimed at young kids, might be around 56 years old. And we're gonna make it really simple, really fun for them to follow. So, yeah, I hope you guys enjoyed the class. Let's get started. 2. Four ways to draw a butterfly: All right, cool guy. So the first thing we're gonna do is start off with some really basic shapes. We're going to practice drawing some basic shapes. The first thing I want you to be able to do before you're going to draw along with me as well. Is that okay? Yeah, that's fine. We're just going to start really simple and draw a circle. And draw a circle. Nice. Now, even if your circle looks a bit squashed, that's fine because we're gonna be drawing an oval as well. Can you draw an oval? Just kind of like an egg shape. Nice, good week. Mean. The other one is like a teardrop shape. Like awesome. So these are all shapes that we're going to use to draw our butterflies. I'm going to start off by showing you guys for really simple ways of drawing a butterfly. All right, so we're gonna start off with the first on the first one is withdrawing circles. So we start off with the body of the butterfly. Yeah, you just join them when you're ready. Then we do two circles, one over here, one over here. And then we do two smaller circles, one here, one here. Now, what you can actually do is if you have anything that's round, you can actually use they're like I've got this doc type here. You can use that to trace around. It might be like the lid of something or if you really want to get your circles looking really perfect, then that's fine. But you can see how now we've already just got like a basic butterfly shape. Pretty easier. Yeah, Pretty cool. Okay, so let's do, let's do another one with circles. This time start off with the body here. I want you to do some floating circles. One circle out here, one out here, and the two little circles that are a bit further out to the body like that. Starting from the body, we're going to connect them up by going around, around those teardrop shapes. Here we go. Now let's go. Yours looks really good. Butterflies kind of have these two types of wings. They have the big one at the top and the little one at the bottom. And they have like little circles and stuff on them so you can even add those up there. All right, so that's the first two methods. Now, there's two more I want to show you, the third one, so that's number one. Number two. Number three is, this is probably my favorite one. This is called rainbows. What you do is you start by drawing the body. Then you do start with a little circle and you draw rainbows coming out from the middle. Them kind of angling up a little bit. You do the little ones coming down like that. And actually we're going to add in some color a little bit later with some color pencils. You could do it rainbow color if you want to, like lots of little different colors, There'll be quite cool. So is quite a fun one for doing that. The last one, number four, is pretty easy. This one is called the Y-shaped and all you do is you go capital Y. So it's like that with a line. And then you go curved down down into little ramp. It's at the bottom. That's kinda like yeah, it's like a straight line and then the curve down. And I forgot to mention we can add in the little antennas, so two little lines coming out with a little circle, but on the end. What do you reckon? So hopefully you guys have been at home like copying along. If it went a bit fast for you, you can just pause the video, go back to where we were up to. So remember if we recap, we've got circles, four circles. This is a floating circles where we draw the circles first and we went around them. This one is the rainbows, my favorite. And this one is the Y shape. To start with, and then we draw the other bits. Then of course, you can add in lots of little details like that. Just to give you some more fresh ideas, here is a page with heaps of different types of butterflies on it. This one's even got some light kind of flaming type shapes in some some squishy circular shapes. What do you think Which is your favorite beef? My favorite is most likely this way. Okay. It's quite nice. Yeah. It's got like a kind of curvy applying. So if you wanted to, you can pause the video on this and actually try copying some of these. In fact, I might even put, I'll put this picture up is an attachment to the video. 3. Colouring your butterfly: Alright guys, so now we're going to stop playing around with colors. Now, I've got a really cosine of color pencils here, but you guys can use whatever you've got at home. You might have felt or coloring pencils or even paint if your parents let you let you paint crayons, maybe. Yeah. So what we're gonna do, we're just going to try and choose some colors that are similar to each other. Okay? So I'm going to choose blue, purple, and pink beat. What colors are you going to choose? I think I might change. Maybe. Nice. Orange is kind of freaked me out and I actually put on a computer like fizzing because the screen to compute it. Yeah. I think there's still recording. Hold this up. The camera just hold up to eventful monkey. It wasn't live video type C document anyway. It's pretty efficient if you think about it. It's like how bomb. Okay, So I think we got the colors, the co, covalently. Already. I've chosen colors that are quite similar. These are actually called harmonious colors because they work in harmony together. And beef, you've chosen good colors as well TO in green and the yellowy brown. Or did you want art where you think orange? No, no. So it kind of contrasts with it. Exactly good point. So it contrasts against the grain. So that can be really cool to ever really cool contrasting color to. All right, so let's move these out of the way. What we're gonna do now is we're just going to draw a couple of our favorite butterfly shaped. So Beth, if you want to draw a couple of butterflies, just freehand it. I'm going to do maybe. Look, we're recording. Remember it doesn't matter if they don't look perfect. You can just make them your own style. I didn't like shapes. Sure, you can do whatever you want, your artworks now. I think I'm going to do like a little, cute little one. But with the rainbow style. You guys can draw some of your own ones to be able to practice the colors on. Okay. I mean, you could in other different colors. In fact, when we were different shapes, when I, the email show you guys, the monarch butterfly is quite different again in the style that it is. All right. What we're gonna do is start adding in some colors. We're not gonna get too detailed, but we'll just start coloring in. What I like to do. I didn't know if you guys like to do this yourself, but I like to blend my colors to give it almost start off with a bit of purple. In the end, I'm going to go over the top of some pink. That looks nicer. I think I'll use like a bright pink inside this round, but yours is looking good with what's your favorite Kelvin? Probably don't really have one. Okay. What's your favorite color if you are watching this video, I can't hear you, but you could tell me what is your favorite color? My topics now I think I'm going to go more of a blue. Blue. In fact, I'm gonna go blue here. The faded and select purple. You can have whatever do whatever colors you want to do. And have lots of fun with adding in different colors to give. Obviously, you can't draw butterflies in black and white as well. Well, that's correct. But I reckon it looks nice to add in some really bright colors. Yeah, draw another one that'd be great. Try one of the other styles. I'm going to do the one that you did, the rainbow one, the floating one. Yeah. Okay, cool. Now, once you've kind of colored in the wings like that and you're pretty happy with them. You can do the body now. The body could be like black. Black is pretty classic. They would look good. Or you could also do it like a dark brown. Dark brown. Then if you want to make your for your lines pop out, you can use a blank if you've got one. You can even do it with a black pen or something. And you can go around and do a nice bold outline. You don't always have to outline, but it can make it really pop out and look cool. What colors you're gonna do. I think I might use some different ones. Yeah, maybe yellow to make a sort of a sunset beautiful. I like it. You go for it. So looking girl got my nice outlines. I might even do some little lines on the body. You know how sometimes on the body it looks like I've got like little lines. You guys can just keep going and do all sorts of different colors. I might just, because of my rainbow run, my remember one I'm going to do like rainbow close rid, steal your orange. Orange. You guys know the framework has both near the rubric calls red, orange, yellow, red orange, yellow, green, indigo, violet, Roy G Biv. Yeah, that's how you remember it coat. I'm not even going to get out to the blue. I haven't got enough wings. That looks pretty cool though. Imagine a rainbow bottom lane so you could do play. That's a good, good idea. All right, good plant. Mention of this butterfly came out. It was like, Yo, I'm a rainbow butterfly. Purple. And what comes out to people who just do pink? Opening my extra went in there. And then the final one, Thailand together with the green. I got a lot of pizza was all up in my drawing here. I've got my black body already. Co, so you guys can do it either because you want to do rainbow colors. Remember, these are called harmonious colors with they're really similar. You can do like fire colors. You can even overlap. So base if you do some more yellow going down on the orange and light overlaps in it, creates a really nice look to it as well. And try out some, yes, some felt pins. Watercolors. If you've got watercolor paints at home, that's really cool to be out of their well-being is finishing that. I'll just show you guys some other harmonious color combinations. Got rid. Rid yellow and orange. Yes, go adding some orange. Those are all the colors of fire out there. Those are, those are harmonious colors. Colors like green, obviously like the light and dark version. So if you've got light green, dark green, those go really well together. And Brown can be quite good as well. It's like a kind of seat of nature. Nature colors like trees or plants. Then obviously my purple, purple and yellow, purple and pink and blue go really well. Hey, that looks awesome. What color? What color do you want to do for the circles? I think I might do play like a light blue. Nice. Keep it in there. That looks great. Alright, so cool to be doing this class with my daughter, beef bits teen years old, and she loves drawings. He loves doing awesome. All right, now we've got something really cool planed for the next video. So yeah, we'll see you there. 4. Making a butterfly puppet: Already coal guys. So for this last video, we're going to need appearances, paint, so some white paper. And if you have a pipe cleaner, a black pipe cleaner, if you don't have that, that's fine. You can actually make this part with paper as well. But we can make a little butterfly puppet sign. Cool. All right, Let's give it a go. Now, I didn't know if you guys realize this, but butterflies are actually symmetrical. Do you guys always symmetrical? It's symmetrical means yes, I do. Okay. Tell us which means that an object or something is the same on both sides? Correct. Okay. So what we can do is if we say cool, the body is here. Like this. We can do one side of the wing and it will make two sides. Let's do the, let's do this one, the floating circle method. All right, We've got up like this, cooling around. We'll connect these up here. Like that. Coco does that look right? Drawing on one side and carefully cut out now, the body has to be on the folded into the paper. Does that make sense? Now, if you need someone to help you cut this out, you can get your appearance to help you. And she'd be throwing a cut this out for me. Sure. Thanks. Can you do it under him? Yeah. You're fine. Just keep counting. Good work. Totally doesn't have to be perfect. Yeah, flip it around. Now, this is actually sketching paper, so it's a little bit thicker than normal photocopy paper. Just surround the little heap pop. All right, now one of the cool things that we've done by doing this, if we open up piece of paper, we've actually created a CSO. That's quite a cool way. We could actually get this thing so we can put another piece of paper underneath. And we could draw around the edge and we create the butterfly shape. But that's not the main thing we're doing. The main thing we're doing is we've cut out our butterfly. We're going to open it out to create our little puppet. Now, what we have to do is we have to fold over the wings. We're going to fold forward like this. Try and match up the wings. If you can. Hold onto the bottom like this. Can you guys see? It creates a little butterfly and you can just go full. Might be a little bit hard for you to see on camera, but it looks pretty cool like flying around. So what you can do now and what we'll do is to color the sentence. She can just add whatever colors you want onto it. And maybe let's just draw, choose some colors, pink, circle like that. And then you could make a whole lot of different ones if you wanted to. What we'll do is just kind of color this and then we'll speed up the video so you won't be able to hear her, but you'll just see the video going really fast and see how she finishes it off. And we'll talk to you at the end. All right, Go for it. Alright, great coloring beef. That looks really good. I like how you did a little bit of yellow on top of the orange, made it look a bit more like fire, fire butterfly. Right? So guys, just to finish off, what we're gonna do is we're going to add a little bit of something to our butterfly now, if you wanted to, you could paint, you could color in the bottom of it as well. But what we're gonna do is we've got our black pipe cleaner. Yeah. Alright, and obesity want to fold it in half over here so people can see folder in half. Then whatever we can is if you'd like to attach it to the body like this. Now, we haven't got any cell type right now, but if you have some solid tip at home, you could do that. Otherwise, you just twist, twist it like this around the top, twisted a few times. That will hold it on to that bottom section. Does that make sense? Cotinine, you've got your little antenna bits coming out the front. It's kinda cool. That keeps the body to gather as well. You could use teletype or you could use some black paper or even whitepaper and your color it unless anything, anything like that. I mean, you've got the wings a bit floppy. Being when you go like this, it kind of goes up and delicate. That little butterfly puppet. Looking back, we played around with some really cool color combinations and we made a butterfly puppet. We also learned about those four different ways of drawing butterflies. Circles, floating circles, the rainbows, and the Y shape. What I want you guys to do now is to go away and draw a whole page filled with butterflies. Draw as many butterflies as you can. And then you'll be able to practice heaps and you'll get really good at it. Awesome. Thanks for watching guys. I hope you've enjoyed the class. The butterfly is going to fly through the picture. Butterflies might noise. Flipping the flat butterfly. Alright, bye guys.