Start with a store-bought bouquet that features a variety of bright flowers and greenery. We found that flowers with more brilliant pigments—like bright yellows and dark purples—transferred the best. Next, cut each flower at the base, close enough to remove the whole stem while still keeping the flower intact. When you have an assortment of cut flowers in different sizes and shapes, arrange them face down on a piece of watercolor paper trimmed to your frame size. Related: How to Create Beautiful Dried Flowers to Enjoy Year-Round
Tips and trick on how to draw flower easier
Hey guys in this tutorial I’m gonna talk about easy tip and trick to draw a flower ! This tutorial is for artist who are looking for simple and quick ways to draw a flower. This tutorial is absolutely beginner friendly. If you’re and artist who find it hard to draw flower or just a comic artist who do not have the time to draw every single flower this tutorial is for you .
I have included easy tips to draw a flower as a beginner but also tricks to create a flower within few steps . I hope you find it helpful !
Csp assest :
My first tip would be to take advantage of CSP assest . If you’re an artist who do not know how to draw flowers but still want them as part of your artwork , using CSP assest you can import full drawn flower materials / brushes on to your canvas .
Csp assest is a lifesaver especially as a comic artist I use alot of flowers to enhance my comic and uplift the panels but I do not have the time to draw and color these flowers so instead I like to use flower materials/ brushes . You can just drag and drop them to use .
You get these flower material go to CSP assest and then type in “flower ” . You will get thousands of flower materials and brushes . From which you can download whichever you like .
For ex : i want this flower brush so I’ll click on download. Now go to your clip studio paint window .
Under the material go to download. Where you will find the brush that we just downloaded. Since it’s a brush . We will drag and drop it on the brush sub tool . Now create a new layer and use the brush .
And as you can see we can create flowers without having to draw it . Very useful for artist with no time .
Now if you look at the flower materials which is also available under CSP assest they are often full rendered which is great as they go well with illustration.
Download whichever flower material you like and then go to material download in your CSP download. Now for material you can just drag and then drop them on to the canvas directly to use them .
Using the scale/rotate you can adjust and place the flower however you like it . And that’s it easiest way to add flower to your artwork!
Now using flower materials or brushes you might face this one problem . Since sometimes the flowers material / brush already come colored . You might like the flower but not color . Maybe the color of the flower does not match with your artwork in that case here’s a simple trick using which you can change the color of the flower .
Go to (menu) layer > new correction layer > tone curve. You can play around with its value to get to the color you want
but it’s a bit easier if you have a little bit of color knowledge. Like for example if I want to change the color of the flower to orange . Then I’ll adjust it the value to red and yellow and we get orange as result .
Or red and green for yellow !
Try it out it’s very easy once you get the hang of it .
There’s even 3d flowers available in CSP assest they are much better as we can adjust the angles to fit into our artwork .
And most time it also has the option to change color .
But 3d flower can look odd especially if you have a 2d artstyle . But in that case go to settings and disable it’s shadows . It will look more 2d .
Ofcourse you can edit it further using blending modes like multiply , color .
Simplify :
This tip is for beginners who struggle to draw the proper structure of a flower . Have you ever felt like your flower look flat and the petals of your flowers are drawn in wrong directions. This happens when you don’t have a proper base guideline to your flower but using this tip I’m about to tell , you can draw a proper flower that doesn’t look flat and is in proper structure.
Base structure is the most important to draw a proper flower .
Step 1: is to construct a base. The base will be of 2 part. First being drawing the middle area of the flower and the part 2 would be the basic shape of the flower.
You can practice it by drawing on top of flowers
.No matter what a kind of flower we can easily break it down . For example: you can draw the base structure of the lily like this and for a tulip you can break it down like this
Step 2: is to draw the direction of the petals. Keep it simple . We are gonna gonna draw an Arrow in the direction the petal falls. If the petal bounces up to down like in lilies draw a arrow like this .
If the petals goes down to up like this then draw an Arrow like this . And that’s it
Lower the opacity of the current layer and create anew layer and draw the flower. This basic guidleine will help you draw the petal in proper direction while not making the flower look flat .Automatically you flower will look much better than past by using this tip
This tip is really useful especially when using it in an actual artwork since artwork will have diff angles and perspective using this you can easily construct a flower to match that angle while if you draw it directly without gudies it may mess up the angle .
Especially when drawing a bunch of flowers like bouquet it is much easier to built base using this method .
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EXPRESSIVE FLOWER PAINTING
This exciting online course with Rob Unett gives participants a fantastic immersion into responding expressively to the amazing variety of shapes, colours, lines and textures of different flowers and plants. Rob creates many exercises for participants to work with from around twenty different flower set ups given with the course to paint from. All of the set ups have full length demonstrations by the artist to help illustrate the exercises which encourage inventive exploration with mixed media on different scales from dry drawing materials through to inks and acrylic washes which are often worked into to allow the materials to play their part in the creation of dramatic, colourful and bold flower paintings and drawings.
This course will feed new ways of working with materials into any subject you might usually work with. An exciting and liberating course taught by a master of expressive mixed media painting.
The course is pre-recorded so that you can take your time to really absorb the wealth of advice, practical exercises and demonstrations throughout the course. We would advise spending at least around 3-4 days working your way through the course. The artist suggests that it would be good to create several studies from each exercise to fully explore the learning and new techniques and approaches. You have unlimited access to the course for 12 months.
Chapters within the course include:
Introduction to the course
Guided exercises with looping videos of still-life flower setups. Rob takes you through three different ways of working on paper:
- dry media – pencil, crayon, charcoal & felt pens
- wet media – acrylics, inks
- mixed media – using all of the above
Part 1
Silhouette drawing using dry media
Large format drawings using dry media
Blind contour drawings using wet media
Mixed media drawings using wet and dry media
Mixed media – a slower approach
Mixed media – a bolder approach
Part 2
Developing and working back into small drawings from part 1
Developing and working back into large format drawings from part 1
Materials used on this course:
Large A1 paper, water-based acrylic paints or inks, soluble sketching pencils, crayons, charcoal and a range of brushes. A full list of materials is available once you purchase this course.
NB. IF YOU DON’T HAVE ALL OF THE ABOVE MATERIALS YOU CAN STILL GET A LOT OUT OF THE COURSE.
Intended for:
This online Expressive Flower Painting course is aimed at anyone who would like to push the boundaries of the techniques and materials they use to bring into their wider painting practice.
Duration:
The course is broken up into a series of exercises and demonstrations which can be worked with at your own pace but we would suggest that it might be experienced in stages over 3-4 days ideally.
You get 12 months of unlimited use of the course.
How to participate:
Simply click on the link we send you in your purchase confirmation email from which you can play the main course film and also find the many accompanying flower setups which you can paint from. Some people may choose to create their own flower set ups to do the exercises but if not then the twenty or more flower set ups given with the course will be a fantastic resource to work with from the comfort of your own studio/home.
The exercises are demonstrated wonderfully by artist Rob Unett with lots of hints and tips and then the directions for what you can then do are written on the screen for you in the text which you can pause to really take in the advice. It is a jam-packed course with lots of exercises for you to do and a wealth of advice and instruction from one of the UK’s leading artists.
Level:
Accessible to all levels but a little previous experience of painting may be useful.
Age:
16+ might be a sensible guide age
Additional info:
If you choose to buy this product, at the checkout you will be asked to create your own Newlyn School of Art online account (if you do not already have one) to access any purchase of digital content. Purchasing of digital content grants the purchaser unlimited and immediate access for 1 year. At the point of purchase, you have no right to cancel or gain a refund as you have received full access to the digital product. Please read the Terms and Conditions.
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Tutor led videos accompanied by looped films from the dramatic Cornish Coastline, figure or still life to paint from.
Cut and arrange flowers
Start with a store-bought bouquet that features a variety of bright flowers and greenery. We found that flowers with more brilliant pigments—like bright yellows and dark purples—transferred the best. Next, cut each flower at the base, close enough to remove the whole stem while still keeping the flower intact. When you have an assortment of cut flowers in different sizes and shapes, arrange them face down on a piece of watercolor paper trimmed to your frame size. Related: How to Create Beautiful Dried Flowers to Enjoy Year-Round
Pound flowers
Before you create your flower pounded art design, try transferring a few flowers to your watercolor paper to see how they do. Then you can decide the best way to arrange them. Start by placing each flower facedown, then cover the arrangement with waxed paper or a paper towel. Next, use a hammer to pound around the circumference of the flower, applying pressure to the petal area. Avoid putting pressure on the center of the flower; otherwise, pollen and moisture will stick to the paper as well, which doesn’t look as pretty. Repeat this process until you’re happy with how the hammered flower art looks—don’t forget, you can add accents and dimension by pounding leafy greenery, too! Related: How to Make a Colorful Dried Flower Wreath
Frame flower art
When you’re done hammering the flowers, carefully remove the wax paper and flowers from the watercolor paper. Set the paper in a cool, dry area. Make sure it’s flat, then let dry completely. Once dry, add the flower print to a frame and gift it to Mom. Don’t forget to fill out a card or add a sweet note. Bonus points if you give her a matching bouquet with her flower art!
