My Butterfly by @tarysand (Taryn Sanders)

The inspiration for this came mostly from two things. The first thing that gave me the idea to draw this was the song 'My Butterfly' (Wowie! That's the same as the picture title!! :O ) by Gabry Ponte on his new solo album (Ah yes, yet another picture inspired by Eiffel 65 in some way ^~ Damn I love those guys). I'll admit, it's a weird, acid trip of a song if I ever heard one, but for some strange reason I like it, and while listening to the chorus (at least I think it's the chorus, I dunno, it's the part where some girl is singing in this reeeeeealy squeeky voice) I got this image in my head. Squeeky as this girl sings (maybe she's supposed to sound like a faery, perhaps? It's possible), her voice seems so sad and full of sorrow, and this picture sort of reflects that. The second thing that inspired this was a friend of mine, we'll call her Nel since I don't know if she'd want me to use her real name, who does these just amazing drawings that she was kind enough to send me a few of. I always thought I was a pretty good anime artist until I saw her stuff. It totally blew anything I'd ever done completely away, at least in my opinion (she doesn't believe me when I tell her how incredible her art is ^~ Oh, and she loves Eiffel 65 too, mwahahaha!), and I love her stlye SO much, so I wanted to create something as beautiful as she could, but still undoubtably 'mine'. So her drawings were the diving off point for me when I went to do this, and I'd like to take the time to say thank you, Nel, for inspiring me creatively in a way I haven't been for a long time now. You had me so in envy of your mind-bogglingly amazing drawing skills that I clawed my way up out of my artistic slump and rose to a level I never thought I could reach, and I'd have never known I could draw something like this if it hadn't been for you ^^ And I will admit, I am EXTREMELY proud of this little bit o'artwork. I haven't done anything this detailed or complicated in a long time, plus the image came out on the paper exactly as it appeared in my mind (which hardly ever happens). I wasn't going to color it at all except for the wings, but then I got goin' in Photoshop and, well, you know how that goes ^^;; But essentially I did want to keep most of the drawing white, so yes, that was intentional. I didn't get lazy or anything ^^ Hope everyone likes it! Artwork © Copyright 2003 Taryn Sanders