Drawing flowers is quick and simple. Know how?

- January 01, 2009

I have below five samples of flowers to show how quick and simple is to draw flowers. To start with, there are three ways to start drawing:

See a photograph reference and draw
See live scene and draw
Remember the scene and draw

The first one is the good initiate to start any drawing for basic artists. as you improve your drawing skills, try to remember scenes and end with third step. Drawing flowers is one of the easy way to start your drawing practices. As they have simple basic forms, and outlines.

When you see a picture or a photographic reference, try to observe the highlights and dark shades

and notice the contrast edge of each color. From color to color there is a edge contrast line which becomes the reference point to draw.

Draw basic circular out lines for image proportions, but start adding detailed lines from the center point as this method gives you a right geometry. Keep drawing the lines of the colors you see, and form the complete drawing.

While drawing your object, observe how the petals flow and bend. That becomes your key reference to capture the texture of the drawings, which will be the second part of your drawings after capturing outline drawings. These lines just go with the flow of the petal. Not necessarily the parallel way of outline, but a 3 Dimensional depth.

You don't have to work on highlights or shades of the image at this stage, that is a next level where you will learn a lot in drawings.

The below reference are taken from the photographic scene reference and drawn in about 5-10 min each.