Before you draw a flower, it helps to understand the structure within it. Join John Muir Laws as he picks apart a lily and diagrams the parts. Follow along with your own lily and downloadable worksheet. Read More
Category: Drawing Plants and Flowers
Tips, tricks, and techniques to help you draw plants and flowers.
Flower Symmetry and Foreshortening
Many species of flowers have a simple disk shape with 3,4,5,6 or many petals. Learn how to plot the spacing of the petals for each of these types had how to draw the flower from above or from an angle. When you draw the flower from an angle the petals become foreshortened in surprising ways. Read More
Drawing and Painting Water Drops
Learn how to draw and paint water drops using graphite, colored pencil, or watercolor and mixed media. Fast and fun effects for rainy days! Read More
How to draw leaves (video)
Learn cool tricks to help you draw a single leaf. This workshop includes getting the basic shape, edge serrations, leaf venation, and curling edges. Read More
Drawing Deciduous Trees (video)
Learn how to draw deciduous trees with or without their leaves. How do you suggest those tiny little branches after the leaves fall? How do you connect branches to trunks? How do you suggest masses of leaves and convey leaf texture with a few quick strokes? Read More
Drawing Pumpkins
The pumpkin is a simple little shape and many of us have drawn them each year as a Halloween icon. But beneath the smile shape are valuable lessons to help you draw and paint any rounded form. Let’s explore pumpkins and gourds and how to draw them. Learn to draw the contours and form, shadows, Read More
Out of the Mud- Drawing the Sacred Lotus (video)
The curving petals of a lotus flower present an interesting challenge to the artist. Each petal has a slightly different curve, some smooth, some with a keel or ridge. You see each petal from a different angle, here a view into the interior, there the outside of the petal. The color pattern is a mixture Read More
Let’s draw Oak Trees!
Let’s draw oak trees from the close, middle distance, and far! When we are close to the tree we sculpt a few branches and leaves, showing bark texture and some of the smaller twigs. From the middle distance, the objective is to show the masses of the leaves with a hint of leaf detail. On Read More
Plant Drawing Tricks (video)
Learn techniques to visualize plants to help you draw them plus a grab bag of stratagies to help you draw and paint leaf veins and other details. This live workshop is part of International Nature Journaling Week. You will learn tips and tricks to help you draw plants. I have a bunch of fun strategies Read More
How to Draw White Things (video)
White things are surprisingly hard to draw. With a few strokes, a white flower can turn gray. In this tutorial, we explore techniques for drawing white cottony seed pods, clusters of white flowers, and clouds. Read More