A few days ago when I went to school to pick up Luci, the teacher told me that I had to take her to school the next day dressed up as an animal, I immediately thought of a crocodile, she also said that it could be something simple and suggested a butterfly. Once at home her mother, who liked the idea, told me to dress her up as a monarch butterfly, I for my part had already given in to the fact that it would be a butterfly, I refused to be a monarch and since I would be in charge of making the costume, I thought about what other species I could represent and I took the opportunity to make a nostalgic tour of the few books I still have on entomology, In the end I decided on the Papilio lorquinianus, the green swallowtail butterfly, a species that in my opinion is much more striking and less common than the well-known monarchs, as well as a discreet tribute to the French naturalist Pierre Joseph Michel Lorquin in honor of whom the species was named.
I set to work to draw the templates of what would be the wings.
To give depth to the wings, I decided to make them in four separate pieces that I would later assemble.
Once I had them in place, I prepared the thorax and abdomen, which would be the thorax and abdomen.
Then I started to make the sketch of what would be the cells of the wings. First I made the left pair of wings and then I used tracing paper to replicate the sketch on the right pair and in this way respect the bilateral symmetry of the same.
Then I proceeded to delimit the areas that should carry the black color.
Subsequently the white cells so that the tone of the cardboard does not opaque the colors that I was going to apply and then an aquamarine color to complete the base.
Once I had the base consolidated, I could work making the shading and the pertinent changes of tones, trying to replicate the characteristic Tornasol effect of these beings. In the middle of the process I decided to make a change to the lower pair of wings adding a phenotypic alteration of this species, although it is recessive and uncommon it is still beautiful, a reminder that nature even when wrong is magical.
The next day, a little tired from having slept so little, I was able to enjoy the spectacle of seeing luci fluttering down the street on her way to school.
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Saludos Felipe 😁🤍 muy bellas quedaron las alas de mariposa para Lucia. Se nota que le pusiste esfuerzo y corazón a todo el proceso, cansado pero feliz de los resultados. Seguramente ella también lo disfruto.
Gracias damita. Si le gustaron bastante sus "alas de princesa" como les dijo ella.
Que hermosa, el degradado de los colores te quedó genial. Que bella ella con sus alitas.
Gracias
Guao! Estoy impactada con tu trabajo de pintura. Realmente hermoso.
Muchas gracias se hace lo que se puede
Pues definitivamente el francés Pierre Joseph estaría orgulloso de este homenaje que le has hecho a esa mariposa, quedó espectacular y tu proceso lo hace ver muy fácil, aunque definitivamente se necesita mucha habilidad para lograr ese acabado.
Te felicito y gracias por traer este contenido de calidad a la comunidad Hive DIY
Muchas gracias, en lo personal creo que la linea entre el arte y la ciencia es muy delgada. Por eso veo en ella una ventana para la divulgación científica.
Hola. Un placer tenerte en nuestra comunidad de artesanos, haces un maravilloso trabajo, quedé encantada con la manera en que pintas y mezclas los colores para obtener un resultado final hermoso.
Las alas que hiciste de mariposa para tu hija quedaron espectaculares.
Esperamos ver más de tu trabajo en nuestra comunidad.
Solo te dejo unas sugerencias, para que tu trabajo luzca muchísimo más bonito, y tenga más alcance a la vista de las personas que valoran las publicaciones, te voy a dejar una serie de post que puedes revisar con muchísima calma, son especialmente para muchos de lo que inician en esta plataforma, y mucho más para los que se dedican a este tipo de publicaciones relacionadas con el arte.
Gracias por compartir tu trabajo en nuestra comunidad. Bienvenido.
Cuando puedas te invito a revisar, y a leer todas esas publicaciones para que tu trabajo tenga muchísima más calidad.
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Excellent work, these butterfly wings that you made for your daughter to use at school, they look spectacular. You used a beautiful combination of colors. Excellent step by step. Thank you for sharing your creative process with all of us.
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STOPMucha belleza y ternura juntas, me encanta cómo quedaron
Gracias
Look at beautiful butterfly wings! You made the drawing so details. Also the color match with her dress 😊❤️
Gracias y si ese fue un extra que sinceramente no había previsto, una agradable coincidencia.