30 Colorful Butterfly Inspired Artworks

Check out these digital artworks inspired by nature’s most beautiful and colorful creation. Butterflies are often the subject and motif of many visual arts and one is digital arts.

Butterflies are flying insects in nature and are mostly capable of polymorphism and mimicry. Just like moths and other insects of the same type, butterflies’ life cycle has four parts. In adulthood, butterflies will have large and fluttering wings. Butterfly wings are very colorful and often times represent the beauty of our nature – of which, just like flowers, is a popular subject to many paintings, drawings and other visual arts. They are also popular in fantasy stories and most of the fantasy characters and creatures such as fairies and other winged forest nymphs and spirits came to existence in these fantasy and fairytale stories because of butterflies.

There are a lot of symbolisms and superstitions about butterflies as well. In some cultures like the Japanese, one superstition is that if a butterfly enters your house and perches on a bamboo screen, a loved person or a close friend will visit you soon. It is also said that a butterfly or the color of its wings is a personification of a person’s soul. Some asian culture or some types of butterflies also symbolizes death and seen as a bad omen. Asian cultures sees two butterlies as a symbol of love. Others symbolizes butterflies as rebirth and new life. The famous term “butterflies in the stomach” means a person in anxiety or is nervous.

We have collected some of these butterfly-inspired digital artworks to inspire you with its beauty and colorful art style.