We’ve had some winter wonderland snow-filled days here in the PNW, and although they were stunningly beautiful I am aching for spring. Michelle and I decided to break out our sketch pads for a pattern we had in mind for our Photoshop pattern class using your own illustrations, but it quickly escalated into a floral sketching bonanza. I haven’t done any sketching in what seems like years, but I can tell you just taking a few minutes here and there to sketch with pencil and paper, the most humble of tools, has made me wildly excited about the possibilities of actually having a creative hobby that I could do with a toddler in tow.
I don’t have a ton of drawing experience, and of course no formal training, but I am always open minded and eager to learn new techniques and intrigued by the supplies people use. Michelle and I decided to create the mega list of floral drawing tutorials so you too can get your floral drawing on. We hope you find some inspiration and maybe have a few ‘lightbulb’ moments. I know I did! Please note, not all these tutorials are pretty, but they do have good nuggets and I have learned so much in such a small amount of time. The best part is we can use our Lettering Rx to clean up the sketches super fast and share them with the world. I can tell you if I didn’t have this little tool in my arsenal these sample sketches would not see the light of day, at least until my daughter graduated college. So, we have that to be thankful for! If you try it let us know! And if you have any great tutorials or classes you want to add, leave them in the comments, we would love to know!
Tag us #bflorals
//RESOURCES//
SUPPLIES
Clean + digitize your illustrations
TUTORIALS
How to sketch wildflowers and plants
CLASSES
Botanical line drawing (easy class for beginners!)
Turn your illustrations into easy patterns in Photoshop
BOOKS
Drawing made easy (vintage + free!)
Miss Tristan B. is the co-creator of the world’s best + easiest product photography editing tool-Foto Rx | Shopkeeper’s Helper and one of the writer’s of this delightful blog. Her lofty goal here is to make this a creative resource repository and to inspire you to fall truly, madly, deeply in love with your life.
conte rose line drawing (top) by tristan b. | (bottom) sweet pea pencil line drawing by michelle p.
Flowers are very beautiful and peaceful for friendship and relationships . i like your information keep share your resources. Thank you
Flowers are very beautiful . i like your information keep share your resources. Thank you
Thank you so very much for such beautiful insight into flower sketching. This is so helpful and I appreciate you sharing your knowledge and skill with the world.
Hello! Thanks for compiling the list :) The ‘How to draw a poppy ii’ is not working any more.
What’s the name of the flower in the cover?
It was a Peony:)
Thank you ;)
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