Extended Blind Contour

Butterfly Girl

9 x 12

Marker & Color Pencil

This is my Extended Blind Contour drawing I made using Pen, Marker, and Color Pencil. The main centerpiece of this drawing is my best friend, Mariah, and I drew her with a pen blindly. Once I looked at the paper, it definitely resembled a person but was messy, so I went with it and decided to blindly draw a few more components of her. On the left side next to her face, I tried to draw the hair clip in her hair and I noticed that it kind of looked like a butterfly, and that was my inspiration for the whole vibe of the drawing. On the right side of her face, I tried to draw some of the curls of her hair. That part got a bit messy, so after blindly drawing those three parts, I went in with the same pen and touched up some parts and added new things such as extending the mask on Mariah's face and because I had a blindly drawn butterfly, I drew two more butterflies. I wanted the drawing to have bright bold colors and so I started with a marker, painting the background a deep purple and blue, and then used colored pencil for all the other small parts. I used a lot of ombre and blending techniques and I really liked how they came out. I decided to keep the face and the mask part blank so that the first thing you'd see when you looked at the drawing was the face since the whole drawing itself was very colorful but the centerpiece wasn't. After showing Mariah my drawing, she told me that when she was younger, her brother called her "butterfly" because he wanted to name her butterfly, so I thought the name for this piece was fitting as "butterfly girl."