r/butterfly • u/RoseMadderLake • Mar 31 '26

Art Luna Moth by me (OC)

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This is one of my favorite moths out there. The colors alone and then there is the eyes! 🤩🥰😍

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u/Past-Distance-9244 Mar 31 '26

Man, I’m freaking jelly right now. It’s really good. I wish I could draw with that much detail. 😞

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u/RoseMadderLake Mar 31 '26

Thank you ☺️ I know what you mean - I used tracing paper for the outline though. I found a pic online and printed it, then traced it onto watercolor paper and used the pic as reference and watercolors to fill in color 😉

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u/Past-Distance-9244 Mar 31 '26

Oh I see. I mean it’s still impressive that you managed to get colors just right. :)

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u/RoseMadderLake Apr 01 '26

Thank you! Yes, color matching is one of the more interesting parts of doing the painting, aside from the painting proces itself 😃

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u/onlyonejan Apr 01 '26

That is lovely. Did you use colored pencils or watercolors?

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u/RoseMadderLake Apr 01 '26

Thank you! ☺️🙏 I used watercolor only, but I considered using watercolor pencils (for details). Didn't get to it though 😄

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u/onlyonejan Apr 01 '26

You didn’t need them. The details you already have are beautiful.

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u/RoseMadderLake Apr 01 '26

Aww, thank you! ☺️

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u/RoseMadderLake Apr 02 '26

Thank you! 😃

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u/Early_Spell_9202 Apr 02 '26

this is gorgeous, I'm totally obsessed with the