HowDrawFlowers.pdf

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F lowers

A brief guide

by Michael Terry

Michael Terry

Welcome to www.performingpencil.com

the site dedicated to drawing.

So let's get going on how to draw flowers.

Flowers are such a beautiful subject to draw and as an added

bonus they don't move!

You can ether draw them indoors from a vase, in the garden or out

in the country side, if you do the latter please don't pick them.

Just treat drawing flowers as you would any thing else, start with

the overall shape and progress as shown here refining and adding

more and more detail.

There is so much to draw here so much to observe and capture.

First chose a soft drawing pencil like a 4B or 8B and get a soft

putty eraser rather than a conventional eraser and a good quality

drawing pad, these will help in achieving the results you are after.

For the most part being able to draw something is down to careful

observation, take time to study what you wish to draw. Look at it's

proportions, how big is one part to another, find a part of it that you

can compare to the rest . Also look for how things relate to each

other, see say where a petal ends and see where it lines up with on

another petal or leaf this will help you to get things looking right.

First get the main shapes right. Don't be fazed by all the detail like

petals, stems, leaves etc. Look for the big shapes like I have shown

here, everything else hangs on getting this stage right. It doesn't

matter how amazing you have done all the detail, if the proportions

are wrong it just wont look right. If you drew a giraffe with every

marking and detail but with a very short neck, it just wouldn't look

like a giraffe!

Now you have worked out the proportions you can start adding the

rough shapes of petals and leaves etc.

Once all of this looks right you are free to get into the detail and

shading which will give it a more three dimensional appearance.

You can relax now as you know that when you have finished it will

look right and not like the giraffe!

What I am going to show you now is how to start and work through

to a finished drawing.

How to get started.

Start by getting the overall shape of the flower. Make sure you

sketch lightly as you will want to remove any unwanted lines later.

Here I would like to mention a very useful tool for getting

proportions right, its called the 'Proportion Measure' and is

included within the full eBook.

To continue next sketch in the petals once you are satisfied that all

these are in proportion you can start defining there shape.

Next you can start on the detail but before you do so you can erase

any unwanted lines, other wise it will be difficult once all the details

are in place.

Now you can render in some shading, this will give it a more three

dimensional appearance.

Now I want to show you the different

stages of producing a drawing.

First here is an overview of the process.

The first example is a honeysuckle flower.

Stage One

At first capture the overall shape of the flower, I have included the

stem.

Stage Two

Next start adding the petals, measure one part against another to

get the proportions right.

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