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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.
