{"version":"20211209","show_thumbnails":true,"show_date":true,"show_context":true,"layout":"grid","headline":"Related","items":[{"id":6983,"url":"https:\/\/johnmuirlaws.com\/how-to-draw-an-iris-part-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":6980,"position":0},"title":"How to draw an Iris: part 2","author":"John Muir Laws","date":"May 31, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Iris flowers have a complex shape and curving petals, making them difficult to begin to draw. Build your sketch from simple shapes to detail. Here w learn to draw an iris from basic forms and place the petals using negative shapes. Start with the central axis and proportions.\u00a0Imagine a center\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Art and Drawing"","block_context":{"text":"Art and Drawing","link":"https:\/\/johnmuirlaws.com\/category\/art-and-drawing\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnmuirlaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Drawing-Plants-2.041-001.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":6820,"url":"https:\/\/johnmuirlaws.com\/how-to-foreshorten-flowers-widths-lengths-and-angles\/","url_meta":{"origin":6980,"position":1},"title":"How to Foreshorten Flowers: widths, lengths, and angles","author":"John Muir Laws","date":"April 20, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Study\u00a0the way that angles and proportions change on a foreshortened flower. Petals\u00a0and the negative spaces\u00a0between petals that connect to the short axis (top and bottom) of a\u00a0foreshortened ellipse keep their width but become shorter. Petals and negative spaces between the petals that connect to the long axis (sides) of a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Art and Drawing"","block_context":{"text":"Art and Drawing","link":"https:\/\/johnmuirlaws.com\/category\/art-and-drawing\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnmuirlaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/rotated-star-a.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":89616,"url":"https:\/\/johnmuirlaws.com\/out-of-the-mud-drawing-the-sacred-lotus-video\/","url_meta":{"origin":6980,"position":2},"title":"Out of the Mud-  Drawing the Sacred Lotus (video)","author":"John Muir Laws","date":"October 24, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"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\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Drawing Plants and Flowers"","block_context":{"text":"Drawing Plants and Flowers","link":"https:\/\/johnmuirlaws.com\/category\/art-and-drawing\/drawing-plants\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnmuirlaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Sacred_lotus_Nelumbo_nucifera.jpg?fit=1200%2C1100&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnmuirlaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Sacred_lotus_Nelumbo_nucifera.jpg?fit=1200%2C1100&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnmuirlaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Sacred_lotus_Nelumbo_nucifera.jpg?fit=1200%2C1100&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnmuirlaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Sacred_lotus_Nelumbo_nucifera.jpg?fit=1200%2C1100&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnmuirlaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Sacred_lotus_Nelumbo_nucifera.jpg?fit=1200%2C1100&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]}]}