Easy Steps to Drawing Flowers: Failsafe Lessons for Drawing Floral and Botanical Elements for Journaling, for Stationery, for Keeps (Design Originals) Beginner-Friendly Instructions and Photos
Language: English
Published by Design Originals, 2024
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- Title
- Easy Steps to Drawing Flowers: Failsafe Lessons for Drawing Floral and Botanical Elements for Journaling, for Stationery, for Keeps (Design Originals) Beginner-Friendly Instructions and Photos
- Author
- Bianca Giarola
- Publisher
- Design Originals
- Publication year
- 2024
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1497206685
- ISBN 13
- 9781497206687
Your complete guide to drawing flowers, from simple to intricate!
- Step-by-step instructions for creating modern flowers for any illustrative project
- Drawing techniques that can be used on any floral design and reused again and again
- How to approach a drawing to set yourself up for success
- Detailed photos of real flowers for easy reference
- Troubleshooting tips and answers to the most frequently asked questions about floral drawing
Flowers are an enduringly popular subject for artists, as they can represent a multitude of emotions and occasions. This step-by-step guide to drawing floral and botanical elements will help you create everything from the most basic to the most intricate blooms!
Inside these pages are featured modern flowers perfect for every kind of illustrative project, such as home prints, journals, and stationery. You'll learn drawing techniques that can be used on any flower and applied repeatedly, helping you develop a strong knowledge of how shapes and lines work.
Explore all the important aspects of drawing many different varieties of flower, with highly detailed beautiful photographs of the actual flowers to help you along. Learn all about the anatomy of a flower with techniques on how to draw the bell, cross, crown, cup, funnel, and more! The projects start with the easiest flowers to draw, like cherry blossoms and daisies, and progress to the more difficult ones, like roses and peonies, so you can build your skills as you practice.
Projects include:
- Lady's Smock
- Cosmos
- Harebell
- Lily
- Hibiscus
- Daffodil
- Poppy
- Foxglove
- Pompom Dahlia
- Hydrangea
- Leaves
- Wreaths
- Borders
- And more!
Featuring 15 basic flower shapes to learn and as well as a section on how to apply your developing skills to creating more than 15 wreaths, borders, flower arrangements, monograms, and more, author Bianca Giarola also includes troubleshooting tips to answer the most frequently asked questions about each project. Of course, drawing a flower isn't just about drawing, coloring, and compositions: This book also shows you how to mentally approach a botanical drawing to set yourself up for success from the get-go!
Get started drawing flowers and botanical elements the easy way, with Easy Steps to Drawing Flowers!
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About the Author
Bianca Giarola is a botanical illustrator from Italy and the owner of the Bi Creative Lab. Her motto is "Talent is something you make bloom so let's make it bloom together!"
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