How to draw a butterfly

An easy doodle in 3 steps. A neural network drew it one pen stroke at a time; the orange line is what each step adds.

Step by step

  1. Step 1 Draw the first line.
  2. Step 2 Add the next line.
  3. Step 3 Add the last line.

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Where these drawings come from

Every butterfly on this page was drawn by SketchNN, a small neural network that draws one pen stroke at a time, so each drawing is already a step-by-step guide. It learned from the Quick, Draw! dataset by Google Creative Lab (CC BY 4.0): doodles people made in a few seconds each. It runs in your browser, and nothing you draw is sent to a server.