Crafted to Bloom with Jessie Chui

Thank you Jessie! You have outdone yourself in this comprehensive tutorial on making a botanically correct Monarch butterfly! The details that you have shared from concept to execution are extensive. The Procreate section was so helpful to me. I have been a casual Procreate user but your training has given me a lot of confidence to try more artistic ideas in that tool. I am thrilled with the butterfly I made, actually, I have made two! I am sure I will make many more of different species. My head is spinning! I've got so many ideas of how to create more flora and fauna using your techniques! If you are someone thinking about taking this course - I can't emphasize enough the substantial content and detailed skills you will learn!

This is my first course made by Jessie Chui. I have been wanted to learn to make butterflies for a while. They will be the perfect companion to my paper flowers. I like the learning about how you have make a huge amount of learning about the monarch before you made this course. There are no shortwaves to make a perfect butterfly! I will use that when I am making future butterflies. Like that there is a possibility to learn how to transfer the butterfly to paper. I am doing it by hand. About coloring the butterfly it is really helpful to already having the pencils myself. The coloring is really deep learning and helpful. I have been drawing many years so that was lucky for me. I also know about color theory. In my opinion it might be difficult for a newbie and overwhelming to color for the first time. But you really do your best to tell all the tips of coloring the butterfly wings and body. About the materials I learned that there can be a huge different in the recommended papers weight. That can make it difficult to clue the butterfly wings together - so I use a paper as close to the one you recommend. I can not get the paper you used. In Denmark I could not get the wire 33gauge, so my wire is a little bigger - but I got a good success with a bigger gauge than yours. About gluing the wires to the wings was quite tricky - I got bigger hands than yours. Overall I thing it is an amazing course and your teaching skills are the best. The videos are very detailed and you do an awesome work with the course. I think the course is for someone that are familiar to coloring and paperwork. It is not for beginners. To me it was personally a wonderful course and I learnt so many skills on the way. Thank you Jessie Chui for making it possible for me to learn more about paper butterflies. Best regards Helle Hansen - @hsh_creativefairytales on Instagram

Jessie is clear and extremely precise with her beautiful step-by-step instructions. The amount of work and research she has put into creating this tutorial is beyond priceless. So glad I purchased it and now that I've watched it all, I can gather my tools and materials and start creating. What a perfect botanical replica of a Monarch Butterfly, nothing like this one exists out there! Highly recommended!

Excellent detailed course. I suggest watching the videos before you start the process. Very informative and extremely detailed. If you follow her instructions you’ll have a beautiful butterfly. It would be great if Jessie gave us more templates for moths and other butterfly species!