Flowers are a familiar and at the same time one of the most important topics in drawing. It is important first of all for an artist who should be able to draw any flower, even an ordinary violet, in a new way, fresh and lively. The choice of composition and drawing technique, as well as careful work with color, will help to solve this problem.
It is necessary
- - paper for watercolors;
- - a simple pencil;
- - eraser;
- - saucers;
- - jars for water;
- - watercolor;
- - brushes.
Instructions
Step 1
Take a sheet of watercolor paper. The larger, grainy its texture, the more interesting the drawing will look as a result. Place the sheet horizontally.
Step 2
Choose a simple pencil for sketching. It should be very hard (2T or 4T) and not too sharp so that there are no scratches on the paper, which will then fill with paint. Make all the lines of the pencil drawing, lightly touching the paper, without pressure. Try to apply them accurately, the first time, so that you have to use an eraser as little as possible - this destroys the top layer of the paper, which, in turn, affects the subsequent "behavior" of the paint on it.
Step 3
Divide each side of the page in half and draw centerlines, horizontal and vertical.
Step 4
Use small serifs to mark the location of the flower on the leaf. Move it slightly down and to the left relative to the center of the space.
Step 5
Draw five violet petals with light strokes. Please note that they differ in size: the lower petal is located closest to the viewer, therefore it looks larger than the side ones. You should not draw colored streaks on the petals with a pencil - it will be more rational to apply them later.
Step 6
Draw the silhouettes of the plant at the bottom of the leaf and in the background.
Step 7
Prepare your color mixing palette. Since we will need large amounts of color, use 3-4 saucers instead of the usual palette. Prepare 2 jars of clean water.
Step 8
Cover your countertop with plastic to keep paint out.
Step 9
Use the wet painting technique to paint the violet. In a saucer, mix purple, indigo and very dark blue. In the second saucer, combine the same ingredients, only without the dark blue, add quite a bit of yellow instead. In the third "palette" add a little bit of red to this mixture.
Step 10
With a clean, wet brush (no paint), brush the surface of the top two petals. violets. Try not to go beyond their boundaries. Immediately, until the leaf is dry, apply the first shade (the darkest) to some of the petals at the base, rinse the brush and drop the color from the second saucer into the center of the petals, then from the third saucer on the top. When exposed to water, the colors will begin to mix. You can tilt the sheet slightly away from you so that the dark colors flow towards the light ones.
Step 11
When this part of the picture dries up (wait 10-15 seconds), draw blue lines with a thin brush - veins on the surface of the petals.
Step 12
Paint the side parts of the flower in the same way, only wash off the light areas immediately after applying the paint with a clean wet and then semi-dry brush.
Step 13
After waiting for the drawing to partially dry (70 percent), draw a yellow violet core, adding light brown to the very center. After that, make dark purple lines, gradually blurring them in the direction from the center to the edges of the petals.
Step 14
Do not draw the flowers in the background in detail, but only mark them with large spots of different shades, after wetting the sheet. Make sure that the paint at this stage of the work does not flow onto the already drawn violet.
