Crayon Butterflies

Crayon Butterflies was inspired by something we used to do as kids in school. We would fill a page with colour, normally using wax crayons, and then we would go over the color using a black wax crayon. We would then take a pencil or another sharp object and drawn onto the black crayon which would reveal the colour beneath, creating a rainbow of shapes and details. It was so much fun. This was done digitally, in Procreate, using layers and a scratchy pencil (brush) Just butterflies, in all shapes and sizes with various markings and patterns. The style is quite simple and naïf and I wanted them to look like they had been cut out.