Drawing is an exciting art that always causes admiration in those who do not have that talent. Observing a person who takes a pencil or another similar instrument and on a blank piece of paper, out of nowhere, a whole world emerges, be it a face, a landscape, an animal, with all its details, shadows and contrasts, is something One of the most liked motifs when drawing, either to practice and exercise in this discipline, or to give to someone or to decorate a room, and also as a pattern for a textile or craft work or work, are the flowers, a part of nature of greater beauty and variety, since there are infinite species of flowers existing throughout the planet wonderful.
The usual thing is to choose between the best-known garden flowers, with their various colors and shapes, such as the rose, the carnation, the daisy, the tulip, the violet, the lily, and others. Each of them has its own characteristics when it comes to addressing how to draw them, to achieve optimal results.
That is why we propose some guidelines that will surely help you to introduce yourself in how to draw flower drawings.
With plastic bottles
- It is a simple technique to draw flowers that do not have much detail. You have to look for a plastic bottle of soda or mineral water, which have a shape of several embossed peaks at its base. In a plate you can put paint of the color you want, and of the type you want, diluted acrylic, diluted watercolor, or you can put Chinese ink or other characteristics.
- Take the bottle and press its base on the paint and then, shaking it slightly to remove the excess, press the bottle on the paper, cloth or support where you want to put the image.
- Once you have that general sketch of the petals, take the pencil and draw a circle with the help of a thimble or the inside of a roll of adhesive tape, for example, or directly by hand, in the center of the flower. Then draw a few lines to make some leaves and the stem.
Vegetables and shadows
- A similar system, but with a little more complexity, is that you use vegetables as if they were an ink pad, or as silhouettes from which to draw a flower. For example, you can use a cut and cut radish, or a celery stick, and dipping its leaves and part of the stem on ink or liquid paint, then you can press the celery on the paper or the desired surface, and several times, you will achieve the general sketch of a flower, which you can then complete in pencil, and finish it when you have the whole sketch completed, with a pen, marker, pen or other instrument, or perhaps you prefer to finish it off with another pencil or charcoal.
Wet paint
- You can use the wet paint technique where you apply different brushstrokes of the same or different colors, one on top of the other before any of them dry. With different brushes, you can paint on the paper or canvas by drawing the largest and smallest petals one after the other.
- Without letting it dry, paint over it again with different shades to achieve a variety of nuances. You can draw two circles of petals, with a deeper color for the inner petals and a lighter color for the outer ones. Add shadows and highlights by making the highlights white and the shadows dark.
- Use a brush at an angle against the surface, but first brush against a piece of paper to get as much paint off the paper as possible, then apply it to the drawing as you go. Draw the light with that white tone in one direction and the dark tone for the shadow in the opposite direction. In this way you will achieve volume and realism.
The daisy
- Perhaps this is one of the easiest flowers to draw, and therefore, you can start drawing flowers from this flower. Draw a small circle in the center of the piece of paper. Draw another much bigger circle surrounding the first one you made.
- You will have a figure very similar to a vinyl music record, which was an LP. It is time to draw the petals. Begin by drawing a couple of curved lines at what would be the top center radius from the inner to the outer circle, bringing one up. It is as if you were drawing the blade of a ceiling fan seen from below.
- Go drawing more “blades”, that is, petals, first adding one below, then another on one side, then on the other, so that now you have a cross. Keep adding oval petals until you have a full circle of petals. Now you can erase the lines of the circles that have served as a guide to draw the daisy.
- Outline the inner circle of the center of the flower and the lines of the petals with a darker pencil. Give the center of the flower a yellow-orange color and a contrasting color, such as a pastel blue or green, in the background to finish drawing the daisy.
Sunflower
- Draw a generous circle and within it another one that is smaller but not too much, forming a figure like that of a car wheel, because as is known the center of a sunflower is large, full of the tasty seeds that will later be used for the table or for oil.
- Next, sketch a stem with a pair of parallel winding stripes. On each side of the stem, put the profile of an oval leaf. Then, draw a narrow, elongated heart in the circle formed by the two circles you dropped first. Now, you have to repeat the narrow and elongated heart, with the fold at the top barely outlined, all along the inside of that space.
- These hearts are actually the petals of the sunflower. When you have drawn these petals all the way around the inner circle, draw more petal tips in between the first ones, which will offer the classic design of sunflowers.
- Now draw a latticework of crossed diagonal lines in the center circle to represent the sunflower seeds. Go over the lines of the stem and leaves to give more volume to one and the other. Finish your drawing by coloring with greens and yellows to give it color and warmth.
The Rose
- Draw a U whose ends have something of a sinuous shape, like that. Below that first U, he draws another, larger one, with the same design of sinuous-shaped points as the U, and a third U with the same features, but larger than the previous ones and enveloping the previous ones.
- Then throw a line that makes a double curve, in the shape of a giant and elongated S, for what will be the stem. Attached to the stem, it outlines an oval leaf on one side. Extend a line that divides the sheet, starting at one end of the sheet but not ending at the other end. Now you need to start outlining the petals.
- The best thing is that you get a natural rose, to observe the very particular way in which they are rolled, first the upper part of the petals, and then one after the other, leaning on the outline of the three U’s at the beginning. Start with the smallest U and fill it with petals that overlap each other. Then repeat the process with the second inner U, detailing them, and continue in the same way with the outer U.
- Add more petals looking for the rose to have the characteristic rounded shape that forms the set of leaves. Once you have the petals, it’s time for the sepal, those green leaves at the base of the flower, for which you will have to draw lines with angles that form points. Missing? The famous thorns, which must be placed on either side of the stem, with its typical angular appearance. Give the leaf more detail by drawing the jagged outline that the leaves of the rose have. Finish off the drawing by adding color, for example red on the petals and green on the sepal and on the stem and leaf. Then repeat the process with the second inner U, detailing them, and continue in the same way with the outer U.
- Add more petals looking for the rose to have the characteristic rounded shape that forms the set of leaves. Once you have the petals, it’s time for the sepal, those green leaves at the base of the flower, for which you will have to draw lines with angles that form points. Missing? The famous thorns, which must be placed on either side of the stem, with its typical angular appearance.
- Give the leaf more detail by drawing the jagged outline that the leaves of the rose have. Finish off the drawing by adding color, for example red on the petals and green on the sepal and on the stem and leaf. Then repeat the process with the second inner U, detailing them, and continue in the same way with the outer U. Add more petals looking for the rose to have the characteristic rounded shape that forms the set of leaves.
- Once you have the petals, it’s time for the sepal, those green leaves at the base of the flower, for which you will have to draw lines with angles that form points. Missing? The famous thorns, which must be placed on either side of the stem, with its typical angular appearance. Give the leaf more detail by drawing the jagged outline that the leaves of the rose have.
- Finish off the drawing by adding color, for example red on the petals and green on the sepal and on the stem and leaf. Add more petals looking for the rose to have the characteristic rounded shape that forms the set of leaves. Once you have the petals, it’s time for the sepal, those green leaves at the base of the flower, for which you will have to draw lines with angles that form points.
- Missing? The famous thorns, which must be placed on either side of the stem, with its typical angular appearance. Give the leaf more detail by drawing the jagged outline that the leaves of the rose have. Finish off the drawing by adding color, for example red on the petals and green on the sepal and on the stem and leaf.
- Add more petals looking for the rose to have the characteristic rounded shape that forms the set of leaves. Once you have the petals, it’s time for the sepal, those green leaves at the base of the flower, for which you will have to draw lines with angles that form points. Missing? The famous thorns, which must be placed on either side of the stem, with its typical angular appearance. Give the leaf more detail by drawing the jagged outline that the leaves of the rose have.
- Finish off the drawing by adding color, for example red on the petals and green on the sepal and on the stem and leaf. Missing? The famous thorns, which must be placed on either side of the stem, with its typical angular appearance. Give the leaf more detail by drawing the jagged outline that the leaves of the rose have. Finish off the drawing by adding color, for example red on the petals and green on the sepal and on the stem and leaf. Missing? The famous thorns, which must be placed on either side of the stem, with its typical angular appearance.
- Give the leaf more detail by drawing the jagged outline that the leaves of the rose have. Finish off the drawing by adding color, for example red on the petals and green on the sepal and on the stem and leaf.
The tulip
- Draw a not very large circle at the height of the first upper third of the sheet of paper you are using, cardboard, pad, etc. From its base draw a line bent in a gentle curve to your right, which will later be the stem.
- Sketch a pair of petals with the upper end somewhat pointed, each of them formed by two long and curved stripes that resemble the petals of the tulip and overlapping one on the other. The lines below will meet the curve of the circumference, so that the result will be a kind of inverted double V (W). Between the two petals, draw another petal that does not cross the first ones, making it look like it is behind.
- Now move on to throwing the lines of the leaves. These are very long, start from the base of the stem and bend to one side and the other, as if they wrapped the stem, but without hiding it. There should be three of them and they will look like long narrow tongues of fire. It thickens the stem and marks the outline of the leaves, as well as the sepal, very small, like a button, at the base of the stem.
- Keep adding line details to both the petals and the leaves, and you can shadow and highlight it if you want it in black and white, with various of the drawing pencils, or you can color it, and give it depth, shadows, and highlights with the shades of colors and touches of white in strategic places on the flower, which will give a very realistic impression to your drawing.