Several years ago I bought an adult coloring book
full of beautiful drawings of flowers
I didn’t buy it to color,
I bought it to use to practice my drawing skills
of my favorite subject, flowers
I highly recommend using a book like this to help you learn to draw
or to improve your drawing
There are many to choose from on Amazon here
There are a lot of colored pencil sets available too
You could also trace the outline of the flowers
if drawing the whole thing scares you,
and then fill in the details yourself
to get a better feel for how to draw them
This is the page I chose and as you can see in the photo below,
I drew only part of the page,
the 2 main flowers and some leaves
As I am always preaching, pick a start point
and start building your subject shape by shape
Once you are satisfied with your pencil drawing,
go over it with a waterproof liner pen and add details,
erasing the pencil when you’re finished
Various lengths of small lines add shading
to make the flower look dramatic and 3 dimentional
You can color this with colored pencils, markers, or watercolor
{if you drew on mixed media paper}
or you can use a combination
For today’s drawing I used colored pencils
I used a photo to reference the varying shades of the flower petals
as they overlap and capture highlights
For the pink flower I began with coloring in the lightest areas first,
then the medium shades, then the darkest
For the yellow flower I colored one petal from lightest to dark
Then I jumped to the center darks
Then I worked backwards from the darks to the lightest areas
There’s no right or wrong way, just whatever suits you
Once the 2 main flowers were finished I did the stems and leaves
And it was done!
“Botanical Flowers” colored pencil and ink on mixed media paper
Have some drawing and coloring fun
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