Butterfly Line Art

The butterfly, the butterflies (Lepidoptera) form the most species-rich insect order after the beetles (Coleoptera) with nearly 160,000 described species (as of 2011), about 130 families and 46 superfamilies. About 700 species are newly discovered every year. Butterflies are distributed on all continents except Antarctica. In Central Europe they are represented by about 4,000 species; for the whole of Europe the catalog of Ole Karsholt lists more than 10,600 species. In Germany there are about 3,700 species.

Lineart, line art or line art (English for "line graphics", "drawing" or literally: "line art") is the term used in cartoon, comic and manga art for a finished inked drawing that is not (or not yet) colored. Linearts are a special form of graphic art, illustration or drawing that consists solely of lines and does not contain any color-filled ("colored") areas. In comic art, the term lineart is most often used to distinguish the uncolored but otherwise finished inked drawing in the artistic process from the pencil preliminary drawing that precedes it and from the colored drawing that follows. Although the term lineart is rarely used in other art genres, most monochrome tattoos, as well as the pre-printed drawings in children's coloring books, are also other examples of lineart. In chat and microblogging, lineart stands for ASCII art that spans only one line.