Art Tutorials - How To Draw a Dragonfly

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    Select the soap tool and make a blue sky for your dragonfly by clicking on the screen.
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    ArtBug Soap Tool
  • Choose a darker blue and a big circle.
    Give your dragonfly a head.
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    ArtBug Felt Pen Fill
  • Choose a small cricle.
    Draw a long thin blob for the dragonfly's body.
    Draw a longer, thinner blob for the dragonfly's tail.
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    ArtBug Felt Pen Fill
  • Select the bucket tool.
    Fill the dragonfly's body and tail with the blue paint.
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    ArtBug Flood Fill
  • Select the felt-pen, white and a small circle.
    Draw the out-line of two long thin wings on each side coming from the dragonfly's body.
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    ArtBug Felt Pen Fill
  • Use the dropper to sample the blue paint on the dragonfly's body.
    Choose the felt-pen and a small circle.
    Draw two antennae on your dragonfly's head.
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    ArtBug Sampler Tool
    ArtBug Felt Pen Fill
  • Select an orange and click on the moon to make it brown.
    Your dragonfly is an insect, so give it 6 legs, 3 on each side.
    You can give your dragonfly a nice happy face.
    ArtBug - How to draw a a Dragonfly with ArtBug's Angela Seanor
    ArtBug Felt Pen Fill
  • You can add clouds using the big circle and white and a sun using the same circle and yellow.
    ArtBug - How to draw a a Dragonfly with ArtBug's Angela Seanor
    ArtBug Felt Pen Fill
  • Ooohhh, a pretty dragonfly!


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