Mimosa, which just a hundred years ago was an exotic plant, is now considered one of the symbols of spring. Twigs of these yellow fluffy flowers are presented to beloved women on March 8, they are also most often depicted on greeting cards. It is better to draw mimosa with colored pencils.
Determine the location of the composition
For a novice artist, drawing thin delicate leaves and tiny fluffy balls of mimosa one at a time seems like a long and tedious task. But the process will go much faster if you draw in stages and first determine the place for the groups of leaves and flowers.
Determine the place on the sheet where your mimosa will be. With a hard, simple pencil, draw the outline of the spot. Since mimosa is a living plant, it does not have a rigid structure, and the stain can be in whatever shape you like best. Of course, you don't need to paint over it.
If you decide to draw mimosa with a simple pencil, prepare two - hard and soft. The first is for sketching, the second is for drawing details.
Flowers and leaves
Think about where the flowers will be in your drawing and where the leaves will be. Circle the place where the fluffy balls will be with an irregular circle. There may be several such areas, because the mimosa is all strewn with flowers. Where the leaves will be, draw straight lines in different directions. They can be in some places and double, because the branches of mimosa have different thicknesses. Draw thinner straight lines at an angle to these lines.
If you are drawing mimosa with colored pencils, circle the areas under the flowers immediately with a yellow pencil. Draw straight lines for the branches in brown.
Mimosa balls
Take a closer look at how mimosa flowers look. Each of them is a small fluffy ball. You can draw many, many circles in the areas intended for flowers with the most common thin lines. But it is much better to immediately make the flowers fluffy. For this all, you need to draw not with thin lines, but with zigzag lines. It is not so difficult to draw a circle by overlaying strokes across the circle without lifting your hands - just try it on a separate sheet. Draw many of these spiky balls.
Leaves are just groups of stripes
It's even easier to draw the leaves. There are two ways. Draw short strokes from those lines that extend from the main branch, at an angle. They should fit fairly tightly. In this case, the hand moves according to the following algorithm:
- draws a stroke from the line;
- comes off the paper;
- returns to the line;
- draws a stroke again.
Things will go faster if you draw in a different way, that is, without taking your hands off. From the end of the line, start drawing in a zigzag, quick motion. The time to work is significantly reduced, since the hand performs only two movements - from the line to the end and vice versa. Draw all the leaves in this way. Circle the twigs. The drawing is ready.
A little about paints
The easiest way is to paint mimosa with paints - watercolors or gouache. In the same way as for a pencil drawing, determine the location. It can be outlined with a thin pencil in the same way as for flower areas. The flowers themselves can be drawn using a cotton swab. Dip it in yellow paint, then apply it to the sheet and so on until the entire area is filled with yellow circles. Draw the leaves with thin parallel strokes with the end of the brush.
