For today's art challenge, I’ll be a butterfly as a 3D decoration for my kids' room. I got the idea from the beautiful decorations I see in their classroom at school. To bring this 3D craft to life, here are the materials I’ll need:.

What I Used for This Art

To bring this beautiful butterfly to life, here are the materials I used for sketching, shading, and painting 🦋

Item	Qty	Description
A Guide	1	To look and draw
Galaxy A15	1	Capturing the steps
An Eraser	1	Cleaning errors
Plain Paper	1	used as my canvas
HB Pencil	1	For Shading
0.5 mm Pencil	1	For sketching
Some water colours	*	For painting
Ear buds	*	as brush
Some water colours	*	For painting

Drawing Procedure

Step 1 [Preparing the Canvas]

For this project, I used an A4 sheet of paper folded in half, whhich mae it look like an A5. With orientation being landscape Each half formed a wing, and the center fold became the body of the butterfly.

Step 2 [Sketching and Structure]

I drew half of the butterfly on one side of the folded paper as a guide. This method helps with proper scaling and symmetry.

I started the sketch with the upper wing, which is usually bigger, then moved to the lower wings.

Step 3 [Carvings Out]

Once the sketch was done, I carefully cut out the butterfly outline with a sharp blade. This is where I had to be extra careful — one wrong cut and I may have to start all over.

I traced the outline again on the cut-out wings and added more details.

Now it was time to start the painting process. My choice of colors was red, yellow, and green — at least, that was the original plan.

Step 4 [Painting]

I brought out my watercolors and used a cotton swab to paint the carved butterfly. The red color went on first, on some parts of the upper wing and a little at the lower wings too.

The red was followed by yellow, I painted ony some parts of the lower wings yellow, a small porton.

The green paint was hard to open. I put in a reasonable amount of effort trying to open the green can, and ended up going for blue instead.
Blue wasn’t my first choice, but I came to love it.

After adding blue to the butterfly, this what it become.

Step 4 [Finishing]

The butterfly "flew" to the window, then somehow ended up in my kids' room, perched on the window blind right among the flowers.

My Opinion About Crafting?

I really love this piece. I made this butterfly with paper, colours, and even cotton buds for the antenna. It represents beauty and transformation to me.

Who I like to gift this piece of art.

This butterfly will be gifted to my kids as a decoration in their room. I know rhey will love it when they see it petched on their window.

Now the butterfly is ready for a photo shoot.

It's time to take a selfie

Conclusion and Invitation

My appreciation to the organisers for organising this drawing contest. I am inviting @peacemike, @archie25, @lhorgic, @annydee01 and @josepha to drop a comment and participate in this contest.

Media Credit

Composer	@manuelhooks
Captured by	@manuelhooks
Captured with	Galaxy-A15
Community	Creativepulse
Organizer	@sualeha
Posting Date	1st, August
	(@) 2026

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