You do know that the colour of the first butterfly you see in spring says what your summer is going to be like? So if you spot one of those little fellows, you may consider yourself lucky because your summer is going to be colourful.

This is a portrait of one of my best friends. Her birthday was on May 24th and not only did I miss her party, I also owed her a present until now. Serious friendship fail here, I know.

I didn't add the peacock butterfly, she actually had a living butterfly in her hair on the reference. However, it was probably fidgeting around and it was blurry as hell, so I didn't quite follow the ref there. And I have to say that hair almost killed me, but I LOVE how this drawing came out. I'm very proud of this one.

I thought I'd also enter this in *gabbyd70's eye contest.


○ 2B mechanical pencil
○ 2B, 9B pencils
○ Faber-Castell watercolour pencils
○ White acrylic paint
○ Blending stump
○ Kneadable eraser
○ Eraser stick
○ Cotton buds
○ Tissue
○ A4 paper