World’s First Butterfly Cosplay – Part 2: Painting Monarch Brightwing

This dragon of a project was relates to a character in the upcoming Blizzard game Heroes of the Storm. Last month I shared with you how this project began and the various stages required to sculpt the Monarch Brightwing sculpture that will serve as the base of what may very well be the world’s first butterfly cosplay!* In this second part of this blog series, I wanted to show you the colorful and creative steps that followed.

The first in-depth blog covers the beginning stages of my Monarch Brightwing sculpture, here!

 There are also some photos of monarchs tossed-in for good measure, and I strongly encourage you to check it out if you’re curious to learn more about monarchs or find out more about how I approach sculptures!

Likewise, I recently posted 

the second blog in the series, which covers all aspects relating to the work that went into painting the sculpture. I'd highly recommend checking out the original blogs which are posted directly on Blizzard's website because there are a lot more photos and details about the process there (and well, much better formatting)!

World’s First Butterfly Cosplay – Part 1: Sculpting Monarch Brightwing

World’s First Butterfly Cosplay – Part 2: Painting Monarch Brightwing

World’s First Butterfly Cosplay – Part 3: Bringing Monarch Brightwing to Life

At last Monarch Brightwing was finally ready for her butterfly cosplayer! In the next blog covering this quirky project, you’ll witness everything coming together, butterfly and all, to complete this unique take on cosplay! You can check out some teaser images below.

If you're interested in finding out more about 

Heroes of the Storm

 (the game I work on), you can learn more about this awesome team brawler 

here on our official site

Do you have any questions about painting materials, the creative process for this project, or raising monarchs? Let me know in the comments below!

Onto

World’s First Butterfly Cosplay – Part 3: Bringing Monarch Brightwing to Life

As this project was done for work, all photos of Brightwing and my Brightwing sculpture are Copyright Blizzard Entertainment. All standalone monarch photos are copyright Kimberly LeCrone.

* - As far as we know!