How to Draw Bumblebees Fighting
- 1). Make a stick-figure like outline of the bee. Draw a large, perfect circle for the head, followed by an oval then another large perfect circle for the body. Draw simple oval shapes for the wings coming off the bottom of the body's circle with a larger oval- shaped thorax underneath the wings.
- 2). Make stick-figure outlines for the legs and antennae. Bees have six legs -- two short ones coming from the oval shape just behind the head and four longer ones coming from the joint of the oval and circle of the body. The head has two antennae coming off the top.
- 3). Layer the drawing by giving the legs three to four long oval segments. Begin to fill the wings in with translucent ridges by drawing long irregular shapes and wavy lines. Draw saw-edge lines over the body of the bee to represent fuzz, draw horn shapes for pincers over the mouth and over the antennae to give them body.
- 4). Go over the drawing with a darker pencil and blur the shapes together. Draw light lines on top of the bee's body for fuzz and erase any marks indicating the stick-figure drawing is still underneath. Fill the realistic outline in with darker pencil.
- 5). Give your own personal flare to the bee by putting more irregularity into the segments of the legs, sharpness on the pincers or fuzz on the body. You can fill in the drawing with color once the final image comes through giving the body yellow and black bands starting with the head being black, the upper body being yellow and alternating from there.
- 6). Repeat the process for a bee in facing the bee you just finished. This will communicate the idea that the bees are fighting.
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