Hello there! I’m back with some new drawing ideas. Today, we’re gonna discover some easy and cute butterfly drawing ideas. I tried to make most of these drawings as simple as possible, but some are a bit more complex !
I’ve tried to include a big variety of drawings, you can take inspiration from them or copy them for your doodles as you wish.
I hope you can find some nice ideas for your next butterfly doodles amongst these. 🙂
This post focuses on cute, sometimes whimsical drawing ideas of butterflies.
If you’re looking for more aesthetic ones, check out this article :
Materials
- Use a pencil and an eraser to sketch your doodle first
- Then go over your initial sketch with an ink pen of your choice
- When the ink has dried out, erase the sketch under it
- Done!
1. A Simple Butterfly
First, a very simple doodle of a butterfly. A butterfly is a majestic and beautiful insect. It is also complex when you look at it. The colors, shape, the legs… But when you want to doodle it, you can simplify it as much as you want ! For this doodle, I use a simple body that has the shape of the letter “l”, and the two wings, shaped like “B” or “3”. You can add or omit the antennas, to your liking!
And there you have a very simple butterfly.
2. Butterfly From the Side
When you know how to draw a butterfly from the front, drawing one from the side view is also very easy. Take your front-view butterfly, and remove one-half of the drawing. Tweak it a little bit, and you have the profile of a butterfly!
As you can see, on this doodle, the shape of the butterfly is a little more complicated but still very easy!
3. Butterflies and Stars
Now that you can doodle butterflies, it’s easy to make cute doodles while integrating them. Here, we draw the butterflies flying around with stars to decorate the doodle and make it look more adorable.
4. Butterfly and Flower
Another element that you can add next to a butterfly is a flower! You always find butterflies flying around flowers. And as you can see, I really like drawing little stars and dots around butterflies. When I think of a butterfly, I always think of some magic power they spread around.
5. Butterflies in a Flower Field
You can also draw butterflies flying around a field of flowers. You can make it as detailed as you want, but I try to keep it simple for these doodles, so you can re-draw it easily!
6. Girl Looking at Butterfly
In “Aesthetic Drawing Ideas : Cute Girls” we learned how to draw cute girls. Here, I just drew a butterfly from the side view coupled with a cute girl looking at him. Basically, you can add any thing / person / animal next to a butterfly, it always works.
7. Hand and Butterfly
Now I know hands are not easy to draw. But you can simplify this hand by just drawing one finger if you don’t feel comfortable drawing hands. Isn’t this image cute ? A butterfly flying around and getting some rest on your hand.
8. Cat and Butterfly
In “22 Easy Cute Cat Drawing Ideas“, we learned how to draw cats and discovered many cat drawing ideas. Cats are curious creatures, and I like imagining a cat observing a butterfly without moving. I think a dog would often quickly try to eat the butterfly… Even though they mean no harm. 🙂 So, I drew it with a cat ! Of course, feel free to draw a butterfly next to a dog!
9. Butterfly and a Jar of Stars
Another cute idea is to draw a jar full of stars (I drew only three stars, but feel free to draw more) and draw a butterfly flying around it. Stars and butterflies together just make everything cute ! And it’s super easy to draw, it just requires a little bit of practice to get the jar right. 🙂
10. Butterfly Jar
Another idea that requires you to draw a jar. This time, a butterfly is stuck in the jar, and another one comes to help. This image can have many meanings, and I like to think that somehow, the free butterfly will manage to help the other one.
11. Butterflies Around a Flower
We already discovered a butterfly and a flower earlier in the list, but this time many butterflies are flying around the flower. This drawing shows the butterfly in various positions: front and side views. It’s a nice doodle to try!
12. Two Butterflies
Now you can make the butterflies look more aesthetically pleasing by giving more shape to their wings. As you can see on the picture here, the shape of the butterfly wing is not like a regular “3”. There are irregularities, that you can translate to your doodles if you want.
From the drawing we just made, you can make it more complicated and aesthetic by adding details to the wings. Butterflies (beside Chimera Butterflies) are known to be very symmetrical. But feel free not to make them 100% symmetrical if you wish.
Feel free to check the “Aesthetic Butterfly Drawing Ideas” article for more ideas like these!
13. Happy Cat and Butterfly
This time, the cat is trying to play with the butterfly. Such a cute sight!
14. Book Filled with Butterflies
That, for me, is some really dreamy view. I love reading, and imagining stories. To me, the butterflies represent the stories and the world of imagination hidden inside the book.
15. Line of Butterflies
This time, let’s draw a couple of butterflies following a flying heart. You can practice all sorts of positions for your butterflies on this one.
16. Butterflies and Flowers
Another drawing of butterflies accompanied by flowers!
17. Simple Butterflies
This time, we draw stars next to the butterflies. I have to say, drawing little decorative stars next to anything is my favorite way to make a drawing aesthetically pleasing.
18. Simple Cat and Butterfly
Another cat looking at a butterfly. This time, we only draw the head of the cat, which should be easier than the whole body if you had difficulties with that!
19. Little Boy and Butterfly
A little boy running after a butterfly, asking the butterfly to wait. Isn’t it cute ?
20. Butterfly-Cat
We’ve drawn a lot of cats looking at butterflies, trying to play with butterflies or butterflies flying around. Now, we draw a butterfly-cat ! Or a cat butterfly ? Anyway, a cat mixed with a butterfly. It makes it look like a cat fairy.
21. Butterfly Chibi Girl
I’m not too sure what the difference is between a fairy and a butterfly-girl. But after the butterfly-cat, here we mixed the chibi girl and the butterfly! She has big wings, little antennas, and she can’t speak.
22. Butterfly-Girl
Anoter version of a butterfly-girl. We keep the antennas and the fact that she can not speak. She bas big bug-eyes and very big wings that are more detailed.
23. Flying Butterfly-Girl
And now for the last one, we draw another girl-butterfly ! But this time, she’s flying! Of course, you can also call it a fairy. But I made them with the intent of being a butterfly, so… 🙂
